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From: gal@atux01.UUCP (G. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.math,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Posting grades (Was Re: Student and Course Integrity)
Summary: disparity in grading
Message-ID: <864@atux01.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 88 14:37:52 GMT
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One thing we seem to be missing in this whole discussion is
the disparity of the instructors' grading systems.  I took a course
in Math Education when I was in college (Ohio University), and
the first day the instructor gave out a student's completed math
test.  Some problems were right, some wrong, but the test was not
marked as to how much each problem was worth.  The instructor said
to assign our own values and grade this test.  The test grades varied
from the mid-30s to the mid-80s on the EXACT SAME TEST.  It really
drove home to me how little grades can really mean.

					gary


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