Many of our students are pre-med, -nursing, -pharmacy, -OT, -PT, etc. If
my policies cause just one of them to catch a potentially fatal error,
it's worth it. Besides, I take off only enough points to goad them into
remembering--as the silly name is supposed to do. I'ld be willing to bet
that "nekkid decimal point" has been uttered on some ward already at the
Medical University of South Carolina, which is down the street.
Jim
Barbara and/or Bill Hooper wrote:
>
> When I was still teaching college physics, I never went so far as dropping
> grades for the one error of omiting the zero before the decimal point, but I
> did criticize the omission. And in grading reports in the laboratory, where
> I would require rewriting for any report that was less than "good"
> (equivalent to B grade), I would require correcting this error (along with
> any other minor errors) when doing the rewrite.
>
> Bill Hooper
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