If you mean, is it common for students not to get the 'details' of what the instructor says in writing, esp. on a syllabus, I'd say yes. You know full well that you cannot communicate anything of note in a single verbal statement, nor often in a written one. People frequently don't get it the first time around.
I might set myself up as intellectually superior on this issue, along with all other clearly superior professors :), except that I recently managed to wipe out on some rudimentary instruction for a new piece of software. Maybe we only learn when we have to use the stuff. By answering the question, and presumably getting some feedback on the answer, perhaps your students now can be confident that 79 is not a 'C' grade. BTW, is 79.55 a 'C', or a 'B' in your book? Cheers, Jay EAKIN MARK E wrote: > I told my class on the syllabus that 70 to 79 was a C. Today I reminded > them of that and asked "is a 79 a B"? (They wrote their answers > anonymously on sheets of paper and turned in the pages). When I was > through counting the responses, almost the entire class of seventy students > thought a 79 was a B. > > Is this common in your university? > > Mark Eakin > Associate Professor > Information Systems and Management Sciences Department > University of Texas at Arlington > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > .. > .. > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: > .. http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . > ================================================================= -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. 4444 North Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216 USA Ph: (262) 634-9100 FAX: (262) 681-1133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.a2q.com The A2Q Method (tm) -- What do you want to improve today? . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
