Re: Professors Beware: Students Are Doing the Grading, Announces RateMyProfessors.com

JATZECK wrote:

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> I often had whiners who decided that they were "just learning the 
> material" and, so, shouldn't be graded too harshly.  When I was a TA a 
> few years ago, I had one student who decided that she was going to have 
> at least 90% on her lab report and wasn't about to discuss the matter.  
> I ended up giving it to her just to get her out of my hair.  Getting 
> students like that to haggle for marks wasn't worth the effort.
 If just saying "this discussion is now over" doesn't work, a technique 
I've heard of (but
not one I necessarily endorse) is the following: "So you don't think you 
deserve the grade
you got? OK. Ten more off your score for arguing."

Rich Lemert

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