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Students study to pass exams, teachers teach to enable students to pass exams. If your grading is based mostly on correctly reproducing facts and applying algor
by adrianN 10mo ago
Students study to pass exams, teachers teach to enable students to pass exams. If your grading is based mostly on correctly reproducing facts and applying algorithms you memorized then that’s the outcome your education system optimizes for.
- Swizec 10mo ago> If your grading is based mostly on correctly reproducing facts and applying algorithms you memorized then that’s the outcome your education system optimizes for My favorite college class was compilers. The whole semester you worked on a compiler for a simplified Pascal. Each homework added a feature. The final exam was 4 hours. Open textbook, open internet. No chat with classmates. You got a description of 3 features to add to your compiler. Grade is number of tests passed. Fantastic way to teach understanding.
- Ntrails 10mo agoMy uni claimed grading was something like: ~ 40% bookwork. Rote learned facts ~ 30% standard questions. Do in an exam hall standard variants of what was done in class/homework/tutorials. ~ 30% New applications and logical extensions. I don't know how well they achieved that split, I suspect it was mostly aspirational. Seemed like a reasonable ideal though!