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In my mind it's more nuanced than that. An answer can be mostly right but maybe someone missed a negative sign or misread their parentheses and thus failed to c
by jschwartzi 7y ago
In my mind it's more nuanced than that. An answer can be mostly right but maybe someone missed a negative sign or misread their parentheses and thus failed to complete the question correctly but still understood how the question was to be completed. Should they be penalized as much as a totally blank answer? Probably not. They've demonstrated some learning and they're almost as competent as someone who didn't make the same error. And it's not an error that the course is meant to correct or teach.
- ben7799 7y agoThat is for sure a thing but that's definitely separate from grade inflation. The grade inflating teacher might give the person who almost got it right an A, the teacher not inflating might give that student a B. Even in these super difficult engineering classes at ultra hard schools there are always some people getting the answers right and showing all the work correctly so everyone knows they aren't cheating. I had some classes that were incredibly difficult where realistically maybe a bunch more of us should have failed.. the teacher scaled things up but we sure as hell did not get undeserved As.