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From: clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke)
Subject: Re: cruelty to undergrads
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Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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Date:	Wed, 6 Apr 88 08:57:50 EDT

In article <359@jc3b21.UUCP> larry@jc3b21.UUCP (Lawrence F. Strickland) writes:
[lots of stuff, including mine, omitted]

>Student A (whose paper is marked correct) accompanies Student B to my
>office.  Student B presents the problem in, usually, a nice manner.  Upon
>examining the problem, I find that it has been marked WRONG correctly.
>Student B then, usually a bit more beligerantly(sp?), points out that it
>was marked CORRECT on Student A's paper.  Following the concept embodied in
>the above articles, I should then re-mark Student A's paper LOWER!
>Needless to say this evokes some rather harsh criticism.

My solution to this problem (which doesn't arise all that often if you
mark carefully enough :-) is to say, "Two wrongs don't make a right."
I admit that I've done one thing wrong and apologize for it, but refuse to
repeat the error.  Not all students are happy with this, but none that I
remember has persisted in claiming more marks.
-- 
Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
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