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TexasProgresive

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12. I guess we will disagree

Mon May 11, 2015, 07:50 AM

May 2015

I still maintain that most people in a group will be average and therefore should receive a C grade, a few are exceptional and should receive an A grade and a few can not do the material and are failed. When the course material is such that the students naturally fall on the bell curve then it is as it should be. I don't advocate grading on the curve which is forcing the issue but that the final results should be fall closely on it.

How does it make a student feel who is really exceptional to know, and they will know, that their A means the same as someone they know is really a C student? And is the C student who receives an A urged to work harder?

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What’s the Point of a Professor? [View all] n2doc May 2015 OP

Back in the day in a galaxy far far away TexasProgresive May 2015 #1

Harvard is even much higher then that yeoman6987 May 2015 #2

The teacher I disliked the most was my 6th grade science teacher. Scootaloo May 2015 #3

Curve grading is idiotic. eridani May 2015 #6

If the grades don't fall on the bell curve TexasProgresive May 2015 #7

I see no reason why grades should necessarily fall on a bell curve. eridani May 2015 #11

I guess we will disagree TexasProgresive May 2015 #12

Who gives only letter grades in college? If you got a 95, you know you eridani May 2015 #13

85 is an A? TexasProgresive May 2015 #14

Straw man. No one **EVER** said that only 10% of the class can learn the material. eppur_se_muova May 2015 #8

There's a difference in definition. Igel May 2015 #9

The pivot point for grade inflation started with one very specific change: Buzz Clik May 2015 #4

if u learn the material taught, an A is appropriate. purpose of class is to learn what's taught, NOT msongs May 2015 #5

That's one view. Igel May 2015 #10

The bell curve grading system iis a seriously flawed system that needs to be stopped. greatlaurel May 2015 #15