In that case, let us round up "correctly" and make a 75.5 into an 80. :)
It is not only adolescents who can rationalize anything. Must be. Cheers, Jay EAKIN MARK E wrote: > The students did understand that I said that 79 was a C. Some told me > later that since many faculty round 79 up to a B, they feel that I > should also round it up regardless of what I said on the syllabus. > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Jay Warner wrote: > > > 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 > > > > -- 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/ . =================================================================
