Hi I'm with Deb. It is also much more convenient for students to be able to go somewhere at any time and place and find their marks. In addition, past research showed that posting grades for courses with student names (i.e., really public) actually led to better performance than posting without names. So here is another example where the forces for ...???.... work at odds with what might be in the best long-term interests of students. I'm not sure what to put in for the ??? - litigiousness, privacy, ethics, ...
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Deb Briihl wrote: > No offense - but do students _really_ do this? I know that grades were > posted at the schools that I went to and I looked for my grade and that's > about it. I checked out the grade distribution to see in general how others > did, but quite frankly, I never really cared how a particular person did in > my class - certainly not enough to put in that kind of time. Best wishes Jim ============================================================================ James M. Clark (204) 786-9757 Department of Psychology (204) 774-4134 Fax University of Winnipeg 4L05D Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark ============================================================================ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
