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One thing that can be especially difficult when you are a teacher - especially if you teach a more subjective course where many of the questions on tests are free-response, or if you teach an advanced college course where many papers are required throughout the semester - can be separating your perception of or an attitude toward certain students from the manner in which you are grading their work. If you have ever found yourself in one such situation, it will be important that you are taking steps to ensure that you are grading your students' papers and tests without any bias at all - and here are a few tips and tricks to get you headed in that direction. Getting to know the students in your class on more of a personal level is one thing that can help a lot; it can be easy to assume that you know things about the students in your class simply from the way they dress, look, or act, but you will often discover - once you start getting to know them on a more personal level - that your early perceptions were inaccurate at best. A great trick for ensuring that you are handing out grades in a completely unbiased manner is to have students put their names at the end of the papers they turn in and the tests they take; in so doing, you can make sure you are not seeing who wrote a paper or answered the questions on the test until you have already graded the entire thing - which will completely remove your personal opinions or assumptions about a student from the equation. And once you have begun to get to know your students on a more personal level and have ensured that you are grading papers and tests based off of content rather than biases, you can take the final step, which is helping your students to improve; your unbiased approach to grading will help you spot areas where each student is deficient, and you can aid them quite a bit in the long run by helping them improve in all these areas!
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