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- From: waohe@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (WA Office of Higher Education)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.bio,sci.chem,misc.education
- Subject: Re: 2-dimensional grading system (was Re: What can one do for the bright?)
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 09:35:26 +0800
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- Onar Aam (onar@hsr.no) wrote:
- :
- : >In article <1992Nov5.070342.6288@hsr.no>, onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam) writes:
- : >
- : >|> 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
- :
- : 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.
- :
- :
- :
- : Onar.
- :
- Oops!
- Of course you are right Onar if the name of the game in education is
- to prepare quality employees, and there is some importance in that.
-
- Still, some time ago, I noticed that if I should live for the average
- Australian male life-span, that I'm counting down my time, and I notice
- that being a beaut employee isn't what I want to have spent my gift
- of life on.
- Similarly, there are a lot of things more important to me than
- maximizing the GDP! What's wrong with happiness, fulfilment, and
- celebration (of nothing in particular)? Does this have anything to
- do with education?
- Does it have anything to do with how we grade each other?
-
- Jeff
-