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Which is better, curve or criterion-based grading, and why?
Side note: This is funny: https://www.insidehighered.com/news...l-challenge-professors-grading-policy-and-get
Which is better, curve or criterion-based grading, and why?
Side note: This is funny: https://www.insidehighered.com/news...l-challenge-professors-grading-policy-and-get
You should get the grade you deserve, based on your effort and knowledge of the subject matter. Screw the curve.
Which is better, curve or criterion-based grading, and why?
Side note: This is funny: https://www.insidehighered.com/news...l-challenge-professors-grading-policy-and-get
Which is better, curve or criterion-based grading, and why?
Side note: This is funny: https://www.insidehighered.com/news...l-challenge-professors-grading-policy-and-get
One of my favorite classes in college was my econ 1 and 2 classes, for the stuff I learned, for the instructor(worked in the Nixon administration as a low level economic advisor, had great stories), and because the tests where insanely hard. Without a curve, very few would have passed, but with a curve, it allowed the best students to separate themselves and do better. You earned your grade in that class, more than any class I ever took. Curve grading serves a purpose, but should be done in only only in those cases. In most cases, you get what I did in first term calc, which is the curve helped hide the fact the teacher royally sucked.
In this type of case, is the term "best" relative? For example, if the tests are insanely hard, and the highest score is 70%, did the "best" student really learn what they were supposed to? If the highest score of 70% received an 'A', seems to me they didn't actually earn their grade, they got a pass.One of my favorite classes in college was my econ 1 and 2 classes, for the stuff I learned, for the instructor(worked in the Nixon administration as a low level economic advisor, had great stories), and because the tests where insanely hard. Without a curve, very few would have passed, but with a curve, it allowed the best students to separate themselves and do better. You earned your grade in that class, more than any class I ever took. Curve grading serves a purpose, but should be done in only only in those cases. In most cases, you get what I did in first term calc, which is the curve helped hide the fact the teacher royally sucked.
You should get the grade you deserve, based on your effort and knowledge of the subject matter. Screw the curve.
That's not an easy question to answer. Sure, the easy answer is to be completely above-board, and one gets the grades one earns, and that's that.
That sounds good in theory...but...let's say that a teacher has some students from a privileged background where the parents are well-educated, and other students from a poverty-stricken background......
I thought the same thing.No need to read any further. :roll:
No need to read any further. :roll:
how so?No need to read any further. :roll:
You should get the grade you deserve, based on your effort and knowledge of the subject matter. Screw the curve.
how so?
Right, and only in lib lala land are so-called "advantaged" children punished for the failings of others, through no fault of their own.Yeah, because in right-wing fantasy world, growing up in a well-to-do, well-educated family gives precisely zero advantages to their children over those where the parents are poor and not well-educated. Mm-hmm....
In this type of case, is the term "best" relative? For example, if the tests are insanely hard, and the highest score is 70%, did the "best" student really learn what they were supposed to? If the highest score of 70% received an 'A', seems to me they didn't actually earn their grade, they got a pass.
Right, and only in lib lala land are so-called "advantaged" children punished for the failings of others, through no fault of their own.
Lemme guess, every kid should get an award for academic achievement no matter what their performance?
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