In article <02ef01bf57a4$6a3cb640$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dennis Roberts wrote:
>>i don't think anyone would equate grades on the transcript with what the
>student knows >but ... i will be a dime to a penny that if you saw a
>transcript for two students (from >comparable institutions) where one got
>mostly Cs ... and the other got mostly As ... that
>> we CAN assume that one has learned alot more than the other ...
Having seen at least partial counterexamples, I am not so sure.
> Or, at the very least, we can assume that one has learned more than we
>can assume the other learned...
> -Robert Dawson
But which one?
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