The students did understand that I said that 79 was a C. Some told me later that since many faculty round 79 up to a B, they feel that I should also round it up regardless of what I said on the syllabus.
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Jay Warner wrote: > If you mean, is it common for students not to get the 'details' of what the > instructor says in writing, esp. on a syllabus, I'd say yes. You know full > well that you cannot communicate anything of note in a single verbal > statement, nor often in a written one. People frequently don't get it the > first time around. > > I might set myself up as intellectually superior on this issue, along with all > other clearly superior professors :), except that I recently managed to wipe > out on some rudimentary instruction for a new piece of software. > > Maybe we only learn when we have to use the stuff. By answering the question, > and presumably getting some feedback on the answer, perhaps your students now > can be confident that 79 is not a 'C' grade. > > BTW, is 79.55 a 'C', or a 'B' in your book? > > Cheers, > Jay > > EAKIN MARK E wrote: > > > I told my class on the syllabus that 70 to 79 was a C. Today I reminded > > them of that and asked "is a 79 a B"? (They wrote their answers > > anonymously on sheets of paper and turned in the pages). When I was > > through counting the responses, almost the entire class of seventy students > > thought a 79 was a B. > > > > Is this common in your university? > > > > Mark Eakin > > Associate Professor > > Information Systems and Management Sciences Department > > University of Texas at Arlington > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > .. > > .. > > ================================================================= > > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: > > .. http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . > > ================================================================= > > -- > Jay Warner > Principal Scientist > Warner Consulting, Inc. > 4444 North Green Bay Road > Racine, WI 53404-1216 > USA > > Ph: (262) 634-9100 > FAX: (262) 681-1133 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.a2q.com > > The A2Q Method (tm) -- What do you want to improve today? > > > > > Mark Eakin Associate Professor Information Systems and Management Sciences Department University of Texas at Arlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
