I spent the last weekend grading around 300 quizzes. The majority of the answer sheets were mundane i.e. had some solution which I had to check. However, there were a few exceptions 
And, this was definitely encouraging:
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I guess I have already said too much 
. On a related note, this was the phd-comic for weekend. 
Hoping that the coincidences stop there. This exercise was valuable in one other way: It clearly showed that what I taught my students was very far away from what they had learned from me!
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Nov 02, 2010 @ 04:52:59
seriously? they drew pictures? cartoons, no less? are we allowed to do that? God I missed so many opportunities to draw stuff thinking that such kind of stuff will be frowned upon
Whats the silver lining btw? Those cartoons?
Nov 02, 2010 @ 22:25:07
What amazes me is that this was a 20 minute quiz. I think it is always a respite to see something different when you are going through a ton of answer sheets. The silver lining was the cartoons and the fact that I got a feel of how my students (28 out of those 350 papers) think.