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- From: onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam)
- Subject: Re: 2-dimensional grading system (was Re: What can one do for the bright?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.070342.6288@hsr.no>
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- Organization: Rogaland University Centre
- References: <1992Nov3.091430.4135@hsr.no> <1d83n8INNlh1@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <Bx7CL7.DvJ@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 07:03:42 GMT
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- >In article <1d83n8INNlh1@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> waohe@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (WA Office of Higher Education) writes:
- >> The 2D-grading provides more information for EMPLOYERS etc. The idea is do
- >>: integrate the education system with the real world around (at the moment they
- >>: poorly coincide)
- >
- >
- >>: Onar.
- >
- >>At the risk of sounding like Attilla the Hun, or one of his many clones,
- >>have you ever known anyone who got through their study/ professional
- >>training by working much harder than anyone else, only to find
- >>that they then had to struggle for the rest of their lives, holding their
- >>own in an environment in which they remained almost out of their
- >>depth? In other words, they obtained their credential as a prize
- >>for working harder rather than as an index of their ability to cope.
- >
- >>Maybe there's a case for making it achievement/labour ?
- >
- >Even worse, you get people who attained a position by dint of extremely
- >hard work, and do not have the abilities needed? Do you want your car
- >worked on by someone who has become a mechanic by working very hard, but
- >does not understand the problems of the automobile? Hard work is not
- >always desirable; a little use of electrochemical computers (brains)
- >can often do much more than hours of work.
- >
- >We have had postings of people being sent from medical specialist to
- >medical specialist, even 30 or more, when someone with a little brainpower
- >diagnosed the problem fairly quickly. This ability to think rather than
- >to react, and to put apparently unrelated things together, is what any
- >educational system should emphasize, with those who can only grind things
- >out being recognized as second-rate. Or if they are the norm, the ones
- >who can think should be considered supernormal, and treated correspondingly.
- >--
- >Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
- >Phone: (317)494-6054
- >hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)
- >{purdue,pur-ee}!pop.stat!hrubin(UUCP)
-
-
- What the hell are you guys talking about?(!) This is EXACTLY why I proposed the
- 2D grading system in the first place. With today's grading system you only get
- one grade which includes both effort and grasp. With this system the employer
- wouldn't know whether his employee has brains or not. With a 2D system, however,
- the employer gets that vital information.
-
-
- Onar.
-
-