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- From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
- Subject: Re: 2-dimensional grading system (was Re: What can one do for the bright?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.183459.10200@athena.mit.edu>
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- 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> <1992Nov9.171141.5018@hsr.no>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:34:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.171141.5018@hsr.no>, onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam) writes:
- |>
- |> >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.
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- How does work relate to handing in homework assignments?
-
- Your effort C, understanding A student ,ay be using his/her extra time to earn
- money for a car. Is the A-A student that did the homework instead a harder
- worker? In the case of a student capable of understanding A, work C, an employer
- will prefer the the student that goes on to a new project when the original one
- is completed. Employers do not want somebody who, when given an job to be
- completed within 2 weeks, twidles his/her thumbs from the time it is completed
- until two weeks are up. The employer will want somebody who will get started on
- the next task.
-
- Jason W. Solinsky
-