Word: graders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stands, for example, there is a disincentive for professors--even in small courses--to grade the work of their students. If they hire a graduate student grader or two, these students can earn surprisingly good money and finance their educations. Were a professor to grade these exams, however, he would not only have to invest his time, but he would deprive his graduate students of their supper. Correcting such perverse educational incentives will not come easy, but respect for undergraduates and their educations demands a concerted effort...
...telephone interview yesterday to Laceyville, Wisecarver, a ninth grader at Wyalusing Valley School, said that she wrote the letter as part of an English assignment given last week...
...ninth grader said she is anxious for areply to her letter but would understand if shedid not get one. "They're busy and all," she said...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the eighteenth century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...