tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post5292129474471561071..comments2024-01-28T03:35:51.182-05:00Comments on Reassigned Time: Random Bullets of Baseball and GradingDr. Crazyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-89006430426086688882007-10-23T00:00:00.000-04:002007-10-23T00:00:00.000-04:00Go Sox.Go Sox.Second Linehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027186818733260061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-78462708705064944752007-10-22T20:34:00.000-04:002007-10-22T20:34:00.000-04:00Wow - so I just posted a comment to a completely d...Wow - so I just posted a comment to a completely different blog post here. I'm obviously spacing. <BR/><BR/>My most recent student problem centered on why I wouldn't give them special treatment for a bad exam score because they'd come to office hours. The student actually said, "An ethical policy has nothing to do with it. Those other students aren't here, so why does it matter whether you do something different for me?"Dr. Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17311538014480815090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-59685371465426657392007-10-22T20:27:00.000-04:002007-10-22T20:27:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dr. Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17311538014480815090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-64353371035128063462007-10-22T07:06:00.000-04:002007-10-22T07:06:00.000-04:00It is always the ones who really don't get it that...It is always the ones who really don't get it that accuse you of grading on bias. In Ethics I get that on occasion... which is just proof that they didn't actually get the assignment.Inside the Philosophy Factoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255753259090709877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-28329511843324046732007-10-22T01:07:00.000-04:002007-10-22T01:07:00.000-04:00This world series leaves me completely in a bind! ...This world series leaves me completely in a bind! (That is, it would if I actually watched baseball ;-D) <BR/><BR/>I know what you mean about the students, though thankfully, they do still think history is about facts, so I don't get so many complaints that they do badly because they don't agree with me. I can always drum up some facts to prove them wrong. ;-) I co-taught with someone in English, once, and got to witness the "that's what the poem means to ME" phenomenon first-hand. Which, you know, is nice and all, but does it matter if the poem means that to YOU when such concepts were utterly foreign to medieval people?? Apparently students say yes. <BR/><BR/>Can we get to the "fall back" part of October soon please? I want another hour!New Kid on the Hallwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04982506415757771218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-4067276787762249822007-10-22T00:40:00.000-04:002007-10-22T00:40:00.000-04:00Just remember...this is the entitlement generation...Just remember...this is the entitlement generation...they have no experience at receiving criticism.<BR/><BR/>Last Spring nearly all my students accused me of grading them on their opinions. It was a class on argumentation...and by the end of the semester far too many of them still did not understand that a CLAIM requires EVIDENCE to SUPPORT it. They didn't understand that when I wrote "faulty logic" next to one of their assertions, it wasn't just "my opinion."<BR/><BR/>They just think what they say/write is Gospel...and their articulation of why it's important is infallible...even though most of them don't articulate all that well.<BR/><BR/>A brief anecdote: one asshole...er, I mean, one engaging student never understood my feedback; he felt I didn't "treat students as equals" or "give constructive criticism." Yet, I met with him after nearly every paper to discuss in detail why he earned that grade. In short, he had no clue how to support an argument. <BR/><BR/>On one paper, he actually attempted to throw in my face that he went to a friend and the Writing Center and asked them to read it too. I asked him to tell me what they told him. Surprise, surprise...they told him virtually EXACTLY what I had written in my comments to him on the last page. He couldn't accept it! I told him, "Dude, I said it, your friend said it, the WC tutor said it. Why can't you accept that it's true and that I kinda know what I'm doing?" [Ok, I spoke much more professionally than that, but you get the point...].The_Mythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621186404597424842noreply@blogger.com