marking
n. uncountablen. the work a teacher does to check and correct your schoolwork or exams. It often includes a grade or comments on how to improve.
n. the process of assessing and correcting students' written work or examinations. Often used to refer to the evaluative comments and grades assigned by an instructor.
The teacher spent the whole weekend doing marking.
The university has a strict policy that all marking must be completed within three weeks of the exam date.
Standardised marking criteria ensure that every student is evaluated against the same academic benchmarks, reducing the risk of subjective bias during the final assessment phase.
From Middle English marking, merking, merkunge, from Old English mearcung, from Proto-West Germanic *markungu, equivalent to mark + -ing.
Primarily used in British, Australian, and New Zealand English; North American English typically uses 'grading' for this activity.
I have many markings to doI have a lot of marking to doIn the sense of correcting student work, the noun is uncountable and does not take a plural form.