Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Grade Dumping Student A has not receive any assessment grades for the entire nine week period. Toward the deadline of the reporting period the entered fifteen assessment grades in one day. The teaching then inform student A that there are four missing assignments that resulted in a low academic performance and the student has only two days to turn them in. What should be the ethical and practical ramification of providing feedback? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Shame on the teacher who is grade dumping. As a teacher, it's totally wrong; as a parent, it infuriates me. The student may have no idea that they are doing poorly. If grades are not entered until a couple of days before grades close, that is a huge problem for students, and it should be a massive problem for the teacher committing the offense. We owe students graded papers with adequate and timely feedback within at least one week of the due date. The exception might be lengthy papers. Anything less is a disservice to our students. Moreover, how many teachers allow late or incomplete work?