[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I hope the particular economics course, industrial organization, is
> of the second type. If so, trend grading would be worthwhile. By trend
> grading I mean weighting assignments late in the semester heavier
> or "bumping up grades if students are improving." Furthermore, my
> unsupported assertion is that all classes that are both worthwhile and
> interesting are of the second type.
>
> Patrick McCann
>
> p.s. this is less of an attempt to change the policy than to defend the
> policies of other professors who were criticized so harshly.
This is a good point. But it can be handled by giving the midterm less
weight to begin with. You have an argument for giving a midterm a lower
weight, but not a variable weight. And I do give the midterm lower
weight.
--
Prof. Bryan Caplan
Department of Economics George Mason University
http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"He wrote a letter, but did not post it because he felt that no one
would have understood what he wanted to say, and besides it was not
necessary that anyone but himself should understand it."
Leo Tolstoy, *The Cossacks*
