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Why did you curve your class? I mean, I know that we expect grades to follow a statistical curve, and I can almost see it justified (although I disagree with it
by patrickyeon 15y ago
Why did you curve your class? I mean, I know that we expect grades to follow a statistical curve, and I can almost see it justified (although I disagree with it) in a class with more subjective grading (eg history, languages), but questions in freshman calculus have well-defined scores for different answers and parts thereof.
- impendia 15y agoCertainly everyone got a numerical score at the end... but what letter grade should, say, a 77 be? There were no departmental standards, I don't have any particular personal standards, and I hadn't tried to match the difficulty of the exams to what was done previously. I could do something like 90-100 = A, 80-89 = B, etc., but that is no less arbitrary than any other system, and in my experience it is customary (as well as, IMHO, a good idea) to write harder exams and then make the cutoffs more generous.