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professors who don't/can't cover their curriculum also get in trouble. if i had to dedicate half of my classes to reteaching things the students are required to
by john_strinlai 5mo ago
professors who don't/can't cover their curriculum also get in trouble. if i had to dedicate half of my classes to reteaching things the students are required to know before taking my class, i would not cover what i am supposed to, which then has a knock-on effect to the classes that my class is a prereq for.
whenever i have had a larger-than-normal percent of my students failing, i am provided an opportunity to explain it.
- SpicyLemonZest 5mo agoThe full letter (https://ucstudentsuccess.org/ https://ucstudentsuccess.org/) gestures towards "growing pressure to dilute quantitative rigor". The strong implication seems to be that some administrators have told some faculty that the failure rates you'd get from holding the line are unacceptable. Presumably they don't want to frame this issue as a faculty vs. administration thing, which makes sense to me.
- btilly 5mo agoWhen we are put into a catch-22 situation, we should not expect sympathy from the ones who created the catch-22 situation.
- mckn1ght 5mo agoEspecially when “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." – Upton Sinclair
- RugnirViking 5mo ago> larger-than-normal percent it seems to me this is a ratcheting effect. If a larger than average is discouraged, even implicitly by being called to a meeting, people will target under the average. Repeat this and you'll quickly find the average plummeting