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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: <1992Nov9.171141.5018@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> <1992Nov5.070342.6288@hsr.no> <1992Nov8.120506.8598@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:11:41 GMT
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- >In article <1992Nov5.070342.6288@hsr.no>, onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam) writes:
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- >|> 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.
- >
- >What are YOU talking about? The question that was being addressed is WHY WOULD
- >ANYBODY CARE ABOUT THE EFFORT PUT IN CLASSES? It is additonally unclear whether
- >A's would go to those people who put in the least effort, or if you would give
- >A's to the people who are dumb and couldn't learn it in twice the time that other
- >people could, but gave up a social life so they could get an A on the academic
- >part.
- >
- >Jason W. Solinsky
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- Are you an employer? I find that very unlikely. Employers are in most cases
- interested in people who are willing to work, not in some brilliant-but-lazy guy.
- Someone with a grade: effort=A , understanding=C is probably VERY much wanted
- by an employer.
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- Onar.
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