[lit-ideas] Re: Grade inflation
- From: "Torgeir Fjeld" <torgfje2@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:43:54 +0100
On 12 Apr 2004 at 7:56, Steven G. Cameron wrote:
> **To help monitor plagiarism, often time is spent viewing copies of
> previous students' papers in my files.
I never understood what plagiarism is. Please explain. And don't plagiarize.
> Rereading my comments in the margins, as well as the final ones to
> them accompanying the grades at the bottom, it occurred to me that my
> perspective is frequently different than my original impression.
> Since this is so, isn't grading an incredibly subjective art --
> undoubtedly many of the grades assigned by me would not be the same if
> evaluated by another professor (or even me on different days). What,
> therefore, is the value, of the grading procedure??
I don't know, but does it have to be objective to have a value?
Best, etc.,
-tor
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