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I don't really agree with your last statement. It might be a cultural thing, I have no idea where you went to school, but what do I care what grades other stude
by mosselman 9y ago
I don't really agree with your last statement. It might be a cultural thing, I have no idea where you went to school, but what do I care what grades other students get? If you are on the verge of failing on a test, then yes, the average of the group will determine whether there will be corrections made to all grades which could make the difference between passing or failing (5.3/10 becomes 5.6/10), but apart from that I could not have cared less when I was in school or university.
You are right that pen and paper was complex enough. In fact there are many studies that show that children learn better when writing on and reading from paper than on and from screens. In picking schools for my kids I will take the use of paper and real books into very strong account.
- viraptor 9y agoSome tests are graded depending on how the whole group performed. That means that one of the tests I took in highschool where the answers leaked was: 1 wrong answer - mid grade, 2 wrong answers - fail. Normally, you'd need 10+ wrong answers to fail that one. Anyone trying their best without cheating was likely to fail.
- adrianN 9y agoI care because I want to live in a fair society where cheaters are punished, not rewarded.
- mosselman 9y agoI am not saying that cheaters shouldn't be punished. It is just that I wasn't interested in other people's grades back when I did things that involved grades. Also, if you really want that you are probably pretty bad off in most societies. Sadly, many people get away with cheating (criminals, corrupt politicians/companies, etc).
- dalbasal 9y ago..Because they're people and people are sensitive to fairness, especially as you get into more formal ways of doing things like tests.