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Unlimited retakes would be an enormous amount of work for professors/TAs/teachers. Optional homework is often a disaster. At best, students would do it right b
by slaymaker1907 1mo ago
Unlimited retakes would be an enormous amount of work for professors/TAs/teachers.
Optional homework is often a disaster. At best, students would do it right before an exam and the goal of education is not to just pass exams. They’d probably still get a lower score than if they did the homework when they were supposed to.
What I think is better is to have a due date, but just make the maximum 10% each day it is late. So after 2 days, the highest score you could receive would be 80%.
I liked that system because it gave some flexibility with deadlines while still encouraging you to turn things in on time.
- orc00 1mo agoLate work policies like this can be a logistical nightmare at scale. Rather than play the penalty-over-time game, have hard deadlines that are inflexible. Students don't have to engage in mental gymnastics with their scores and instructors don't need to track this stuff. My view is this: a student can turn in an incomplete assignment. Work they completed get evaluated and graded. Anything not completed gets zero credit. Homework should be an investment in effort over time anyway. Unfortunately, procrastination is a deeply rooted problem that usually kills this.