"effort-based grading"
The state of academia: a pair of professors fired over their refusal to participate in a college's extraordinarily pathetic grade inflation scheme.Die, college administrators, die.
posted by Chris Bray @ 2:27 PM
Thursday, August 26, 2004
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ummm, how exactly do you measure effort??
Prof: "So Tim did you really really try on this essay?"
Tim: "Oh yeah totally. I was like thinking about it all the time. I barely had time to get my part on you know?"
Prof: "That's an A for effort!"
You can't measure effort; therefore, everyone has made one; therefore, everyone starts with an A in the category that makes up sixty percent of their grade; therefore, everyone does well in every class.
It's a way of banning Ds and Fs, and curtailing Cs, without banning Ds and Fs or curtailing Cs. It's a backdoor guarantee of a 3.0 or higher just for signing your tuition check.
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