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Some additional questions after your edit: 1. How does one define the "wrong thing"? Genuine question. 2. What about soft grading makes it a scam? Since lette
by csa 9y ago
Some additional questions after your edit:
1. How does one define the "wrong thing"? Genuine question.
2. What about soft grading makes it a scam? Since letter grades are distinctly not criterion referenced, I struggle to see a strong justification for this claim. Please help me understand.
3. What makes you think that anyone in the system wants it changed? I humbly suggest that very few people actually do -- the current system is super-low friction and allows professors to work on the things that they are actually evaluated on.
- tehwebguy 9y agoI'd say giving one a grade they didn't earn, because it is more convenient for you, is the wrong thing. It's surely a breach of ethics to evaluate someone's work and report that they did better than you concluded they did for convenience. I'd call that ethical breach "the wrong thing." OP said to think twice about "honest grading" so I think dishonest grading is the problem with what you are calling "soft grading." I don't think anyone inside wants it changed, I don't think anyone ever does when a broken system benefits them more than those outside. That's why it was in quotes.