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Robert J. MacG. Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu:
> Grading is largely for the benefit of future instructors and employers.
As a practical matter, I think that's true. Particularly in
sequential courses, grades are highly useful in establishing whether
students are ready for the next course. I think most employers look
more at the grade average than at the grade for a particular course,
though I'm sure there are some that do the latter.
>The student usually knows how much of the material they have understood
>without benefit of a final exam.
Here we differ. How many times have we heard from students, "I
really knew this stuff. How did I get only a 64?"? Of course
sometimes the problem is a poorly written exam, but not always.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
"Boy Critical After Rescue From River"
-- headline in the /Cortland Standard/ 16 April 2002
Gosh, there's just no pleasing some people.
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