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> Often professors grade gently to avoid >being mobbed at the end of the year Mobbed how? I have had students protest their grades - there's a process for tha
by bradley13 3y ago
> Often professors grade gently to avoid
>being mobbed at the end of the year
Mobbed how? I have had students protest their grades - there's a process for that. If the grade is somehow a mistake, or unfair, it gets corrected. If not, and if the grading is demonstrably fair, what are they going to do?
FWIW, although I am a hard grader, the student ratings indicate that they appreciate it.
- hyggetrold 3y ago[flagged]
- compiler-guy 3y agoBecause if there ever were a representative sample of how students feel about a professor, it’s ratemyprofessors.com.
- hyggetrold 3y agoWhere else would it come from that is publicly available?
- sudosysgen 3y agoNowhere, but many universities do have student feedback/evaluation forms that you get back after teaching a class, so a professor could know even if they weren't rated on a website.
- bradley13 3y agoThat particular site doesn't exist here. There is a similar site, but not used very much. Still, for what it's worth, have a look: https://www.meinprof.ch/uni/prof/1431 https://www.meinprof.ch/uni/prof/1431
- hyggetrold 3y agoVielen dank! Fwiw I totally believe you were telling the truth. :)
- sdenton4 3y agoEver taught first year calculus to a batch of pre med students? They're under pressure to score high, and feel like their entire future rides on every quiz, so tend to argue every point deducted. It's an incredible time suck, and really just demoralizing.
- BeFlatXIII 3y agoI had many profs take great joy in "failing" the pre-meds (a.k.a. letting the PhD and industry track students get better grades) for exactly this reason.
- ska 3y agoHell, sometimes their parents argue about it. The best defence against this I suspect is to have a clearly communicated, unambiguous grading scheme, but this can be difficult to do in an even handed way. I had one undergrad prof whose policy was this: All incorrect answers get 0, no exceptions. Correct answers lose points for all steps not shown the way he had demonstrated. There wasn't a lot to argue about, but none of us felt his approach was entirely fair.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoI’ve seen a professor get cornered by a student and his parter who did not even take the class, sounding like a lawyer about three points or so on an exam they totally bombed, and it got very confrontational and uncomfortable. This sort of behavior is getting more common as the people who act like this often realize most people just bend and give them what they are asking.