Monday, November 26, 2007
Case Study 3: Jane Vincent
I think that if I was in Jane's situation, I would give the student the benefit of the doubt. If she knows he worked hard and tried his best for the grade he got, then he should be given the better grade. Sometimes all students need is a little motivation to put in a little extra effort. I've been placed in that situation before, where less than one-tenth of a point disqualified me from going to the Academic Awards Dinner in my high school. I know I worked hard and had good grades, but knowing that something so minor made such a difference made me feel a little less worthy. Students should be grades subjectively as well as objectively. Jane Vincent should reconsider the rules she set for cases such as this.
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I partially agree with Colleen. Some students do need a little extra motivation but Jane and her colleagues had already made the desision that they would be following a certain system and giving this student the higher grade would be going against it. If Jane was going to make an exception for this one student, she should go back and re-evaluate all of her students' grades. It would not be fair to just give this student the benefit of the doubt because he has little motivation and not the rest of her students.
I think that the students should all be givivng equal oppurtunity to raise their grade. Maybe having each student do three extra assignments during the semeter will put them on an even playing field. If they care enough about their grade then they will do the assignments.
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