In the wake of that that had occurred in the University of Oklahoma where the teacher and teacher's aid were strongly disciplined for grading a student poorly for not completing the assignment, one would imagine that it would create an effective moratorium against free form essays assignments and encourage multiple-guess answers … or has it?
I'd like to propose a possible solution:
1. Students hand in their essay.
2. Every student is given 3-5 essays from other students to grade and they're given a guide as how to grade.
3. The teachers and teacher's aid grade the grading as a high quality grading indicates understanding of the topic and students are assigned a weighted average of the grade that other students had assigned.
This way, the teachers and teacher's assistants are never actually directly grading the assignment.
The student's essays were judged by their peers.
