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If a student is evaluated on individual growth relative to their potential rather than an (imperfect) objective scale of mastery of a topic, this requires the t
by 1shooner 5y ago
If a student is evaluated on individual growth relative to their potential rather than an (imperfect) objective scale of mastery of a topic, this requires the teacher to have a comprehensive understanding of the student's potential. This seems like a wide-open opportunity to subject the student to the biases of the evaluator.
In the US public university system, students (and their parents) are increasingly taking the mentality of a customer that is owed a grade. Throwing out objective evaluation knocks out the one remaining leg instructors have to stand on against this entitlement, and defend against accusations of bias.
- uberman 5y agoThis 1000%. Not only would this effectively turn the class into a 100% final, there is also no chain of evidence to support a grade at all. We already see parents of university students coming to defend their children's grades. It is already hard enough for professors at private schools to defend incremental assignment grades from the melding of helicopter parents with high placed friends. This would make it impossible.