At 8:07 AM -0500 9/19/07, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Here's a way to ensure "mastery" on the part of one's students. Make
them drop the course if they do't get a perfect score. :-)
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/09/19/greek
A couple of comments from someone who's been requiring mastery for 37 years:
1. I'd never set a mastery criterion of 100%.
That's guaranteed to be scary, and is unnecessary.
A more normal criterion would be 90%; I don't think that you'd see a
functional difference (or much retest reliability for that matter)
between students who got 100% and 90%.
There's also no mention of retesting. If it's one time to perfection
or out I could see why students might drop.
2. I found the comment that a class size of 32 was "just
right for a for class discussion" interesting. Seems rather large to
me -- I doubt that most of the students would be actively
participating.
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