Many thanks
Mark Diamond
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Splendid.
The pot has been stirred.
Some very good responses to my stone.
I stand corrected.
DAH
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 22 Dec 1999 14:47:38 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis roberts) wrote:
>Actually, I see where I might want to be more arbitrary that just
>changing a cutoff. How do you reward someone
Various methods for this sort of thing are found in the marvelous
compilation by M. Zelen and N. C. Severo, 1964, Probability functions,
pp. 925-995, in M. Abramowitz and I. Stegun (eds.), Handbok of
Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards, Wsahington, D.C.
(1965 edition by Dover Publ
Various methods for this sort of thing are found in the marvelous
compilation by M. Zelen and N. C. Severo, 1964, Probability functions,
pp. 925-995, in M. Abramowitz and I. Stegun (eds.), Handbok of
Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards, Wsahington, D.C.
(1965 edition by Dover Publ
A very interesting discussion so far.
David A. Heiser writes:
>Demming sounds like Karl Marx. In an ideal enlightened society Demmings
>approach would work. However the ideal enlightened society always comes
>apart because of greed.
>
>In a greedy, unenlightened, violent society, survival requir
Herman --
I liked your last sentence indicating that MASTERY IS IMPORTANT!!
" I do not use a linear grading method; fortunately, early in my
teaching, I had a student put it all together on the final."
^
Joe
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On 22 Dec 1999 14:47:38 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis roberts) wrote:
[ ... TWO general kinds of "grading" on the curve ...
... how frequently each happens ...]
> 1. LOWERing cutoffs ... thus, INcreasing the #s of those getting various
> higher grades
I have never had the responsibility,
Hi
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Peter Westfall wrote:
> Jim Clark wrote:
> > Artificially giving all students (or almost all) the same grade
> > does not minimize variation in the underlying trait, achievement,
> > in this case. It simply hides the variation so that one does not
> > know to what extent o
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:18:26 +0800, "DIAMOND Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
..
>I give my address as REPLY address and in the body of my text and I
>have posted 15 or 20 times a week,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
dennis roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>this discussion is interesting ...
>there seems to be TWO general kinds of "grading" on the curve ... it would
>be interesting to try to "estimate" how frequently each happens ...
>1. LOWERing cutoffs ... thus, INcreasing
Eric Bohlman wrote:
> Try reading _Out of the Crisis_ and _The New Economics_. You may very
> well find yourself disagreeing with some of his assertions,
>
Another good one: Henry Neave, _The Deming Dimension_. It has a more
sophisticated (but still pretty lightweight for readers of this n
This thread has seen an amazing number of postings and is now starting
to get out of hand. Question. Does this mean everyone is done
grading finals, or is it just that posting to the list looks like more
fun than that stack of ungraded papers?
Best wishes to all for the coming year!
--
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Michael Granaas wrote:
> A student recently came in having divided skewness scores by their
> standard errors. A procedure he said he got from a text. Does this in
> fact make any sense at all?
Why not...? Although the measures of skewness and kurtosis are not
normally di
Hi;
I\'d like to thank everyone who replied directly or via the list to my request
for book reccomendations for a \'non-technical\' Maths/stats christmas read.
Here are a summary of all the recommendations (I don\'t think I\'ve missed any -
if so apologies); in places I\'ve reduced the comment
David A. Heiser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Demming sounds like Karl Marx. In an ideal enlightened society Demmings
: approach would work. However the ideal enlightened society always comes
: apart because of greed.
If you say that Deming sounds like Karl Marx, it means only one thing:
that you
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