Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu:
>After most quizzes, I show the class the median and mean. I have
>sometimes thought about displaying the further information mentioned
>above, but have desisted exactly because I'm concerned about hurt
>feelings.
I've been reading people's comments with interest. The consensus
seems to be that it will do no harm to display a list of grades,
properly coded so that students can't infer each other's grades.
On the other hand, are there actually any positive benefits to doing
this? Does it actually give students enough _useful_ information to
justify the extra effort?
(One obvious reason in favor is to let students get their own grades
before the papers are handed back. As an adjunct, I'm not on campus
every day, so by the time I posted a list of grades students would
be receiving their papers back anyway. I do post quiz solutions to
the Web right away, so students can get a good idea of how they did
and [I wish] learn from their mistakes.)
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"My theory was a perfectly good one. The facts were misleading."
-- /The Lady Vanishes/ (1938)
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