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I also think that just keeping the new grade is a valid retake scheme. Although it's less forgiving for the students, it encourages them to make absolutely cert
by snazz 7y ago
I also think that just keeping the new grade is a valid retake scheme. Although it's less forgiving for the students, it encourages them to make absolutely certain that they know the content for the retake. Anything with a square root curve where you have to pinpoint your retake score perfectly to maximize the final grade is unfair and encourages the wrong thing.
- foota 7y agoYep, that's also fine by me. Although ideally (and especially if it's required to do a retake!) this would be set out ahead of time. Many profs don't seem to understand the kind of time and grade tradeoffs students need to make. Once had a prof come in to a class with a bunch of seniors with many other high priority classes that wouldn't release the grade weighting at all. They didn't understand that people need to know that kind of thing to know whether they need to do really well on something or if it's the kind of thing that can be dropped or half assed when push comes to shove.