tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post90544700976947457..comments2024-03-14T02:53:31.171+00:00Comments on Tom Bennett's School Report: What's red and green and pointless? The endless, anxious debate about the colour of marking.Tom Bennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211959016018081924noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-24534728541636305792011-10-09T00:37:39.582+01:002011-10-09T00:37:39.582+01:00The only useful things I can find to say about the...The only useful things I can find to say about the choosing the shade of one's marking ink are:<br />1. Avoid the colour the kid has written in for fairly self evident reasons<br />2. I like peer/self assessment to be done in a different colour so that students can distinguish my marking from theirs.<br /><br />I mark in red for preference, but when push comes to 'will you bloody well mark our books, sir" I'll use whatever pen's at the bottom of my bag.David Didau @LearningSpyhttp://learningspy.edublogs.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-19221042513836230592011-03-01T06:20:54.277+00:002011-03-01T06:20:54.277+00:00So don't mark in red because it represents lov...So don't mark in red because it represents love and passion?<br />hahahaha<br />Such a weak argument as tom pointed out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-90983269261389682832011-02-28T13:02:45.187+00:002011-02-28T13:02:45.187+00:00Great stuff. There's a fairly amazing poster ...Great stuff. There's a fairly amazing poster by the graphic designer David McCandless which you can find here:<br />http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in-cultures/<br />- the poster shows the various connotations which different cultures associate with different colours. Oddly enough I see no mention of red as being bad for marking in any culture...maths teacherhttp://www.maths4edinburgh.edublogs.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-63427113528941967532011-02-28T12:26:57.230+00:002011-02-28T12:26:57.230+00:00Having just read the paper you linked to, I'm ...Having just read the paper you linked to, I'm shocked that it actually made it into a peer reviewed journal. It reads like it was written by a first year undergrad.<br />This would be what Feynman refereed to as a cargo cult science.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-67866872964255057382011-02-26T23:36:25.477+00:002011-02-26T23:36:25.477+00:00From the lofty heights of absolutely no research a...From the lofty heights of absolutely no research at all, when I ask my tuition students "What colour shall we use this week?" the answer is often ...... red. Some students have a strong, consistent preference for a special colour. Poor things, I insist on using a different colour each week for easy checking of amount of work done when I review each month or so. So purple or orange only gets a run on alternate weeks. <br /><br />But by and large, you'll find every second week marked in red for many students. It's bright, it's clear and it seems to be attractive to those with no particular preference among colours generally..<br /><br />Where's my grant? I must be able to get some money for this from someone.adeladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02019930864931919369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-71160957457594590532011-02-26T21:21:31.697+00:002011-02-26T21:21:31.697+00:00Personally I like the argument that red has connot...Personally I like the argument that red has connotations of wrong, because teachers scribbled all over books in red. How do we fix it? Scribble in purple! Or Green! Because then children will be fooled into thinking they're wonderful because there's no red. Sounds like the same logic that had one of my teachers calling her top groups 'Z' because "if I call them A, they think they're the top group and we don't have top groups, just one that does harder work" (her others were Y and X, shockingly).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-5724417213435490822011-02-24T12:06:47.263+00:002011-02-24T12:06:47.263+00:00Don't mark at all: instead, get the Student Co...Don't mark at all: instead, get the Student Council to peer assess the work. Perhaps they can take the lessons too.Tom Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03211959016018081924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-90708079104929292502011-02-24T08:07:19.866+00:002011-02-24T08:07:19.866+00:00I mark in pretty colours, pink, green, turquoise. ...I mark in pretty colours, pink, green, turquoise. It helps to keep ME interested. Have you ever marked a full set of books where the children make the same mistake across the board and found yourself gently correcting the first few books but ( as you get more and more RAAAAR )the last person in the class bears the brunt of your wrath and has the words DO NOT 'whatever the grammar crime' almost CARVED into the page in massive latters? That was red pen too. <br /><br />Really interesting reading. I will share this at the next staff meeting!Rachel Flowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17875808936389030446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-89347402897768550192011-02-24T07:58:25.027+00:002011-02-24T07:58:25.027+00:00I use invisible ink - it does not infringe pupil r...I use invisible ink - it does not infringe pupil rights by implying incorrectness where none may exist. Works well.Alex Bellarshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16634070092749457138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-25773804304330508652011-02-23T21:53:02.115+00:002011-02-23T21:53:02.115+00:00Unbeliever! Didn't you know that purple aliena...Unbeliever! Didn't you know that purple alienates the borderline D/C candidates, by alluding to an unachievable state of royalty?Tom Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03211959016018081924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-50642101935734331062011-02-23T19:48:41.533+00:002011-02-23T19:48:41.533+00:00I do purple. It's my favourite colour. No oth...I do purple. It's my favourite colour. No other reason. (Oh, except that the kids tend not to write in purple. So they can see what I've written. Tends to be helpful.)Fran Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07935088780461825341noreply@blogger.com