Student's or Professor's Fault?

apumic
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:18:40 +0000

There is a bit of a positive skew to that distribution, BUT… if it’s the first test and in an intro accounting class, then it’s really not particularly poor…
I don’t think you can place blame w/o more information, including the prof’s reputation and knowledge of how hard those students were actually working in the class.
I would honestly like to see more classes where students actually fail (D or F) to help differentiate students at different levels. I think it’s stupid that the average for many colleges IS a 3.2 GPA… theoretically, a 2.0 should be the mean, with a standard distribution of 1.0 grade points, meaning that only 14% of students break a 3.0 (along with 14% below 1.0) and only about 5% manage close to a 4.0 (along with 5% who get close to a 0.0)