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Better strategy: Students who are highly likely to get an A in the class should choose 6 points, to try to ensure that lesser students do not get a free opport
by nonotcorrect 11y ago
Better strategy:
Students who are highly likely to get an A in the class should choose 6 points, to try to ensure that lesser students do not get a free opportunity to catch up.
Students who are likely to get less than an A should all choose 2 points, in the hopes that they'll get some free points.
- JadeNB 11y agoWhy should well performing students try to prevent poor performing students—'lesser' seems harsh—from 'catching up'? (This may be plausible in the classroom setting, but I think becomes more questionable if one thinks instead of, say, welfare grants.) Also, setting aside any ethical considerations, I'm not sure that the mathematics checks out: if there are very few students getting an A, then they don't have significant power to block 'lesser' students from catching up; whereas, if there are very many students getting an A, then this behaviour is guaranteed to reward none of them, whereas they could instead grant themselves all an extra 2 points.