{"id":10038,"date":"2016-08-25T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2016-08-30T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:46:36","slug":"the-end-of-the-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/the-end-of-the-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of the Deadline?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jay Todd<\/p>\n

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\"Parking Meter Fail\"<\/a> by Jeramey Jannene<\/a> \/ CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I'll be honest: I can't remember the last time I penalized a student for turning in a late assignment. I used to be very strict about this. I was taught, in fact, to be very strict about deadlines. Make your policy clear in your syllabus and never deviate from it, I was told. Don't let the students take advantage. So I used to deduct one letter grade for each day a major assignment was late. Small assignments couldn't be late at all.<\/p>\n

At some point though, I started to wonder about the effectiveness of this approach. Mostly, I started to worry, as a writing teacher, that I was hindering good writing by making the deadline some important. A few times, because of my clearly stated policy, I had to give an A paper -- I mean a truly excellent paper -- a C, simply because it was late.<\/p>\n

I still have a policy in my syllabus that says, clearly, that a deadline is a deadline, but I follow that up with a statement that says, \"If you anticipate having difficulty meeting a deadline, please speak to me about it.\" Basically, to an astute reader, I'm negating my policy right there.<\/p>\n

Ellen Boucher discusses this a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: It's Time to Ditch Our Deadlines<\/a>. Her new policy is that all assignments come with an automatic two-day grace period. If a student needs still more time, all that's required is a meeting. As a result, she says, she's seen higher quality work and less stress from her students. She makes a good argument, especially by focusing on how this helps under-prepared college students.<\/p>\n

I should say though that so far, I've only taken this approach with big assignments -- essays and research papers. Daily homework, quizzes, and such still come with fairly rigid deadlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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