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Grades should always be in pencil? Well ....

Submitted by Edward Bujak on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 5:09pm.

 Stephanie, you make a good point that students should should be provided an opportunity to rework back material ... isn't this learning?  The fact that the student wants to redo something to make it better should be rewarded.

That being said, when do you tink this should stop?

For example at my undergraduate university, your grade was final.  If you EARNED an 'F' you earned a '0."  It was never erased!  And it was part of your GPA!  At some universities you can take any class over again (and over again and over again) and they would expunge the worse grade(s).  What's that about?  I could only figure it was to make the school look better but also pre-meds could get astronomical GPAs.  I have friends who have done this!

I have a time-window as to when a student can "rework" old material.  This prevents the material from getting old or stale, but also prevents the students from doing everything the 3 days before grades are due.

 

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