Assessment systems requiring different-coloured pens and rubber stamps are the biggest cause of stress for teachers,according to a union survey“Rainbow marking” sounds very pretty. “Deep marking appears impressive, too. But bureaucratic and jargon-packed unusual systems of marking pupils’ work are the biggest cause of stress for teachers, and according to the NASUWT teachers union.
Marking is cited as the main cause of excessive workload by 76% of primary and secondary school teachers in an NASUWT survey. Teachers are seeing red over arduous assessment systems that use three or five different-coloured pens and even rubber stamps to classify feedback.
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Source: theguardian.com