Back Pocket Prompt #11 · Test grading
90 short answers on one question? Decide partial credit once.
A prompt that maps likely answers to points before you grade, so paper 1 and paper 90 score alike.
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![Slide 3 of 6. Paste the question and your model answer, then type: “List 8 answers students might give to this question, from fully correct to common misconception. For each, suggest a score out of [points] based on my model answer and say why in one line. Flag any answer where fair teachers could disagree.” No student papers go in. Use your school-approved AI tool.](/img/partial-credit-guide/slide-3.jpg)
The problem: Paper forty: is this worth 2 points or 3?
Halfway through, an answer you didn't expect shows up and you start re-checking the papers before it. Map the likely answers before you start and you score them all the same way.
1. Paste the question and your model answer, then type:
Your back-pocket prompt
List 8 answers students might give to this question, from fully correct to common misconception. For each, suggest a score out of [points] based on my model answer and say why in one line. Flag any answer where fair teachers could disagree.
No student papers go in. Use your school-approved AI tool.
2. The human check: Before you pick up the first paper:
- Is each score yours? Change any point value you'd argue with.
- Does it reward vocabulary over the idea? Fix that line.
- Add the misconception you heard in class that it missed.
- New answer mid-stack? Score it, then add it to the guide.
AI suggests points. You set the scale and every grade.
Where your minutes go
Grading as you go~75 min90 answers, plus re-checks
With guide + check~50 minGuide built and checked first
Spend the time you save reteaching the one misconception that showed up on a third of the papers.
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