With regard to Stan Brown's comments. I'm not for crushing students spirit nor am I for chasing them to other area of study. What I am concerned with is the attitude that "I should get partial credit, after all I did some of the work correctly." Student's must learn that the final answer upon which a decision is based must be as accurate as possible. Assuming that errors can be made along the way and the final answer, although incorrect, is okay to use is not the approach we want to teach. If a decision will change the course of action taken by a doctor, pilot, CEO, soldier, President then it better be the correct decision and the answer used to determine that decision better be the correct answer.
Student's have to know that they will have to take responsibility for their calculated answers and proposed dicisions in the real world. The University setting is not the real world. I want the individuals who prepares my medication to do it right. I want my doctor to do it right. I want the President of the United States to do it right. I'm not in favor of saying, "Gee Mr. President, your decision was based on the wrong calculation but that's okay, don't hold the individuals who calculated the answer responsible, after all, they did most of the work correctly and only a few of our soldiers were killed." Do it right or no credit. Let us please get into the real world. Dr. Robert C. Knodt 4949 Samish Way, #31 Bellingham, WA 98229 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Law of Gravity says no fair jumping up without coming down." . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
