dennis roberts wrote on 12/22/99 2:48 PM:
>in any case ... instructors are suppose to give students some reasonable
>description of the grading system used ... at the BEginning of a course ...
>which i assume would include some facimile of a grading scale ... or what
>one has to do to earn certain grades ... and in this context, i would think
>that anyone who might 'consider" RAISING cutoffs so that FEWER students get
>higher grades ... would be challenged from students .. as this appears to
>border on unethical practice ...
When I was an undergraduate at Georgia Tech in the late 1970s, an
instructor for an upper level engineering class in which I was enroled
raised cut offs if necessary to attain a normal distribution. We were
*very* annoyed, but at GT in those days, no student would dare complain.
Paul
