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...matter how many grades instructors have at their disposal, those grades are useless to students if no one agrees on their meaning. Individual TFs, professors and departments are forced to guess at the proper meaning of inflated grades. One TF’s A-minus may be another TF’s A or B-plus. In lieu of clear standards across the Faculty and even across TFs in the same course, interpreting a grade can be as challenging as earning it in the first place...
Although creating some standard meaning for grades is a challenging process, it is essential that we do so using quality-based grading instead of relative grading based on a curve. Curves only describe student performance relative to the rest of their class, and so students must guess about the performance of their classmates in order to determine the overall quality of their work thereby destroying the pedagogical purpose of grades...
...they wanted something a little more human JESSE VENTURA Politico-wrestler to help write songs for a musical based on his life. Lucky you can rhyme "rebel governor" with "triple backbreaker" Losers AUSTIN POWERS Faux-spy told his second sequel's title, Goldmember, is too close to Goldfinger. Guess it's back to Man With the Golden Groin MIKE TYSON Brawling boxer denied license, is being investigated for rape. We're contemplating giving him a regular slot on this list MAKIKO TANAKA Fiery Foreign Minister gets canned by Koizumi. Taking on the bureaucrats was bad, but questioning her boss...
Some people know why they got into Harvard. There’s a kid upstairs who summers at the Sorbonne sketching tourists and that obnoxious guy in section has five patents pending. But if I had to take a guess as to why Brian Ross Lowdermilk, Class of 2005, was invited up to the big H, I’d say it had something to do with writing a new, full-length musical called Transient Days...
...Yeah, there is. We were told, "You're going to go there, and the reason you're going to go there is that you all are built for accepting that risk and mitigating it down to the lowest level," which I guess we are. We're older guys, you can tell - I'm not making fun of myself - but we are older guys. The junior guys on the teams is a staff sergeant who's got, at a minimum, six years in the Army and probably more, maybe eight to ten years before he even comes to us. Our guys...