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That seems like quite the wrong incentive for learning. A lot of ambitious plans fail. To be graded only on the final delivery gives adequate incentive to execu
by wjnc 7y ago
That seems like quite the wrong incentive for learning. A lot of ambitious plans fail. To be graded only on the final delivery gives adequate incentive to execute. I perhaps get the education signal that executing successfully on a plan is a worthwhile skill, but isn't learning also experimenting?
- cldellow 7y agoYou're graded only in part by aligning with the proposal. You're also graded on innovation, technical depth and software design. The TAs compare it to figure skating / high diving -- you should be able to say what you can do, and then nail it. In my experience, the students who take the project courses at UW are ambitious and driven. I suspect the chief effect of this policy is an ambitious project whose plan has been fleshed out by a healthy back-and-forth with the TAs upfront, vs a ridiculously ambitious project that hasn't been fleshed out.