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Topic	Unpopular opinion: the world would be a more professional and better place if...
wolfy42 12/18/18 7:27:14 PM #74:	_AdjI_ posted... And GPA doesn't particularly reflect how willing somebody is to work hard. It mostly just reflects how willing somebody is to put in the required effort to memorize material for a one-time exam, which is a very specific task that they're choosing to work hard on (one whose only reward isn't particularly valuable, no less). Greenfox111 posted... yeah group assignments need to go out the window If you want new professionals to never have had experience working in a group before, sure. You may be surprised to find out, however, that collaborative work is pretty common in most professional fields, and not knowing how to work effectively with other people makes an employee pretty useless. Most classes post AA require writing papers, creating programs etc (depends on the major obviously) and it's not just memorization at that point. Team assignments meanwhile should be where your participation comes in, and not a primary part of your grade. In addition, you could have students work together as a team, then grade each team member individually based on their effort and work. This would still teach students how to work together, but if some of the students do almost no work, or turn in crap that another student has to totally redo in order to include it (and get a decent grade) they would get a lower grade on the team paper/assignment. The way it works now, you are assigned a team, and the whole team is graded equally on the finished work. That does not work as there are waaaay to many students just trying to pass their classes which makes it very hard on the students actually trying to get/maintain a good GPA. --- "did you steal my f*in signature" Helly <cite>wolfy42 posted [p:914356604] in Unpopular ... [t:77299339]...</cite> <quote><cite>_AdjI_ posted...</cite> <quote>And GPA doesn't particularly reflect how willing somebody is to work hard. It mostly just reflects how willing somebody is to put in the required effort to memorize material for a one-time exam, which is a very specific task that they're choosing to work hard on (one whose only reward isn't particularly valuable, no less). Greenfox111 posted... yeah group assignments need to go out the window If you want new professionals to never have had experience working in a group before, sure. You may be surprised to find out, however, that collaborative work is pretty common in most professional fields, and not knowing how to work effectively with other people makes an employee pretty useless.</quote> Most classes post AA require writing papers, creating programs etc (depends on the major obviously) and it's not just memorization at that point. Team assignments meanwhile should be where your participation comes in, and not a primary part of your grade. In addition, you could have students work together as a team, then grade each team member individually based on their effort and work. This would still teach students how to work together, but if some of the students do almost no work, or turn in crap that another student has to totally redo in order to include it (and get a decent grade) they would get a lower grade on the team paper/assignment. The way it works now, you are assigned a team, and the whole team is graded equally on the finished work. That does not work as there are waaaay to many students just trying to pass their classes which makes it very hard on the students actually trying to get/maintain a good GPA. --- "did you steal my f*in signature" Helly</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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