Subject: Re: Topic Appropriateness
From: RAYFan@aol.com
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 14:31:19 EDT
In a message dated 9/15/00 11:16:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bret@iag.net
writes:
<< 2. Unless your college is an extremely unusual one, and if you are "DOING"
these topics completely, and if you are not just giving grades, but
requiring understanding, I would think that your success rate is approaching
0%. If there is significant political pressure on your instructors to assign
passing grades without satisfactory understanding, then you have a MAJOR
problem. >>
The students are told exactly what will be on the tests and are given
previous tests to study from. Most of these topics (but not all) fall in our
"honors" courses. These kids nod their heads politely in class and happen to
be genetically tenacious enough to memorize their way through the exams.
Grades are dispensed liberally. They have to be. I've talked to some of our
top kids and they have admitted to not "getting" any of it.
Ray
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