Scaling grades et al

jakem333
Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:24:44 +0000

After my freshman year, i have not experienced anything like that. The profs that i had (mainly for my large science classes) said right from the beginning that each student would get the letter grade that he or she has earned. My profs did very well in making exams that naturally gave the class a C average (70-80%), despite the occasional 68% or 83% exam avg., (they tended to cancel one another out) so there was no need for sudden changes to the grading scale.

I think that when professors are screwing students over by changing the grading scale, the tests being given in that class have not been written well. In the end, i don’t know that it actually makes a difference because the students generally perform the same relative to each other despite test difficulty, but i certainly believe that its unethical to mislead students regarding their grades.