Yeah, I had teachers change the rubric on the day of the final and even after and the deans at UCSB didnt care at all. Teachers can do just about anything under the guise of education…
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11111one11111@lemmy.world 4 days ago
“He’s telling us not to use it, and then he’s using it himself,”
Yeah it sucks but there is zero chance this argument holds any weight in court.
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Doom@ttrpg.network 3 days ago
Because the truth is they’re the ones deciding how to grade you and for the most part that’s not really “regulated”
The rubric is meant to be an outline of how they grade it so you understand how you got graded, it really isn’t supposed to show you how you will eventually be graded you know?
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
This is whats wring with the world, people will come out of the woods and defend the most batshit insane things…
Why would they need to change how the class is graded after you took the class? The asnwer is simply to fuck you out of money. There is no educational purpose, just a monetary one.
Just because its reguarly done does not mean it should be normalized.
What would you do if youre boss said the purpose of your salary is not to show you how much you will make by the end of the year, but to motivate you to work, and then doesnt pay you for months of work… would you have the same naive outlook?
g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There are some really good reasons to make changes, not trying to say that this was the case in the parent comment, but there are certainly cases where this makes sense. About halfway through my discrete math final my professor wrote a curve on the board based on exam results from the other test session. He realized that he hadn’t properly taught some concepts and he thought it would be unfair for us to suffer because of his mistakes. Should he have been forced to stick to a non curved exam because he hadn’t announced it in the rubric or to the first exam session?
Doom@ttrpg.network 2 days ago
But that’s not what happened.
If you learned the information presented in class I’d assume how you’re graded doesn’t really matter. A grading rubric is nice to know but if you’re hedging everything on that and get twisted when it’s changed maybe you didn’t actually learn in the class?
mothersprotege@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Pretty good pizza at Woodstock’s, tho.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The problem is that a student has a reasonable expectation of being taught by someone qualified and knowledgeable in the topic. If the professor is using AI, then that is a major breach of trust that brings into question the professor’s qualifications and whether you are actually getting the education you are paying for.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not to mention the risk of plagiarism