Bloom, Lynn Z. "Why I (Used to) Hate to Give Grades." CCC 48.3 (1997): 360-371.
Abstract:
Bloom's essay is part of a work-in-progress, Coming to Life: Reading, Writing, Teaching Autobiography. Documenting institutional rational for the grading process and the inhibitions that process places on good teaching, she attempts to answer the question, "How can we grade writing in which the writers have laid their life on the line?" by offering student self-evaluation as a way to open dialogue between teacher and student and ease the tensions inherent in the grade-giving process.