Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The first two would be a net benefit on the rest of the class, no?

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  • jfrnz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No, I don’t think being assessed relative to subpar students is a benefit. You’d get a better letter grade, sure. But likely a worse education due to “lowering the bar”, which is what you paid for. Educators often can’t grade on absolute scales because the pass/fail ratio of the students factors into their own performance assessment.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Grades don’t indicate the quality of your education anyway, they indicate your performance in a class. If someone else does poorly and that benefits your grade, the quality of your education hasn’t changed, only your grade.

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