{"id":385,"date":"2005-09-21T06:37:04","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T10:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=385"},"modified":"2005-09-21T06:37:04","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T10:37:04","slug":"student-gripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Student gripes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems a bit early to be hearing students complain about grades, but what do I know? There are various<\/a> student<\/a> gripes<\/a> circulating around the net. And a colleague told me of a student who claimed that policies at my institution required<\/em> that all grades be based on a 90%=A, 80%=B, etc., scale. (No, they don’t.) It’s only the first day of fall! But maybe it’s karmically related to fewer A grades at Princeton<\/a>.
\nWell, I don’t have any of those (yet) this semester, but I can add the student who complained last year that his A- in my class “ruined” his perfect 4.0 in a program and asked if I would reconsider the grade. I’ll admit that was a new one for me. No, I didn’t. I don’t see anything inherently worthy about grading—it’s an institutional routine with constructed value. I’d be as happy giving out pass\/fail grades. But we have grading, it’s part of student motivation, and I’d make my life and the life of my colleagues much worse if I didn’t stick to what I described in the syllabus as standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems a bit early to be hearing students complain about grades, but what do I know? There are various student gripes circulating around the net. And a colleague told me of a student who claimed that policies at my institution required that all grades be based on a 90%=A, 80%=B, etc., scale. (No, they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-6d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}