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I friend of mine was a lecturer, and she set exams and tasks which explicitly tested the students' understanding of the material she was teaching, as you would
by bencollier49 5y ago
I friend of mine was a lecturer, and she set exams and tasks which explicitly tested the students' understanding of the material she was teaching, as you would expect - scores for her tests followed a bimodal distribution - indicating that they were working.
She got terrible satisfaction scores, and got pressure from 'higher-ups' to reweight the exams so the people in the "fail" group passed.
- todorus 5y agoI'm not sure how to read this. I could interpret the bimodal outcome as the initial skill of the student being the main factor. Either you get it, or you don't, and the lecturer had no real influence on the outcome. The reweighting is not a good solution, but I would ask questions to the lecturer why a good chunk of her students are failing. It's her responsibility to teach them after all, and not to filter out the elite.