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From: karam@sce.carleton.ca (Gerald Karam)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,soc.college
Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
Message-ID: <509@sce.carleton.ca>
Date: 16 Dec 88 23:25:34 GMT
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References: <1131@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <1887@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <4378@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <15456@joyce.istc.sri.com> <870@quintus16 Dec 88 23:25:34 GMT
Reply-To: karam@sce.UUCP (Gerald Karam)
Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <870@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <15456@joyce.istc.sri.com> gds@joyce.istc.sri.com (Greg Skinner) writes:
>>Presumably, you are in school to learn, and your grade should be used
>>by you as a yardstick to measure your aptitude of[sic] the subject.
>
>But how can you do that unless you know the quality of the yardstick?
>Publishing the grades of a class exposes the _teacher_ just as much as
>the students. ... stuff deleted...  If 90% of the class get Cs, the
>teacher is doing something wrong.  Why should this information be
>concealed from the students?

i don't think there is any dispute that grades be posted, just not a
student's name.  why does one student need to know another's grade 
unless there is some suspicion of collusion between professor and
student.  and in that case there had better be more evidence than a
grade.

gerald