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...most importantly, grade inflation damages an instructor’s ability to teach and a student??s ability to learn, which is the purpose of giving grades in the first place. In the past, grades have been used a pedagogical tool—they reinforced comments on a paper or a test. Students are much more likely to take seriously a professor’s or TF’s comments if the grade sends an equivalent message. If an instructor says that a student??s work was mediocre, unoriginal or contained significant omissions but gives...
...their peers. If a TF tells a student that her work was excellent but that she was given a C because, in accordance with a predetermined grade distribution, students are precluded from all receiving high grades, the C gives a misleading assesment of the innate quality of that student??s work. On the other hand, if all the students in a class produce mediocre work but the top fifth of the class must receive As in accordance with a strict curve, those As are clearly unearned and are only an artificial indicator of—as the Beatles...
Similarly, students at Michigan go the “extra mile” in the widely attended Naked Mile on the Sunday before reading period. (For a Michigan student??s description of the Naked Mile, see the sidebar at the right...
Catching up with Julie Chu ’06 is no easy task. This 19-year-old is headed to the Olympics this month and to Harvard next year. She keeps in touch with family and friends like the average soon-to-be college student??with cell phones and e-mail—but it gets difficult with the static and raucous background noise on the bus of the U.S. women’s ice hockey team...
...easy time to start a company because at that time every business student??s dream was to drop out of school and make it big,” Dorfman says...