Harshness of red marks has students seeing purple

[AppleMatt]

I haven't read the link, but I remember we had this in the UK a long time ago, it was all over the news.

Personally, I didn't care what colour my work was marked in. If it said "excellent", I was happy. If it said "If anyone asks, you're not my pupil", not so happy.

AppleMatt

 

[krimson]

back in my day, we had to have red marks on both sides of the paper... while getting our knuckles smacked by a ruler.

 

[Apple //e]

A teacher in the Boston area claims that the current procedure of marking papers in red is scarey. She uses purple because it is less scary. I think that it is just more from the politically correct crowd. They are afaid that someones feelings might get hurt.

http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2004/08/23/harshness_of_red_marks_has_students_seeing_purple/

thats a great idea. but i can do better

spelling errors = yellow
grammar and format = purple
comments = green
average grade = fuschia
good grade = sparkly fuschia
bad grade = burnt umber

 

[MongoTheGeek]

thats a great idea. but i can do better

spelling errors = yellow
grammar and format = purple
comments = green
average grade = fuschia
good grade = sparkly fuschia
bad grade = burnt umber

The only thing that came to mind was the AppleScript Syntax Formatting...

Honestly though there are time when I envy the color blind.

 

[boz2004]

I taught for a time and I usually used green or purple ink when I graded papers... it wasn't for the students so much as for me... I find a lot of red ink visually distracting (no idea why, probably some low-level OCD)... and going further back, while in college I worked as a peer writing tutor and using the different inks came in handy when workshopping...