Comments on: Ahead of steam

By: dkzody

dkzody — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:06:38 +0000

Yay, Mike Curtis. My sentiments exactly!

By: tim-10-ber

tim-10-ber — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:13:57 +0000

Mike Curtis — thank you! Students should be graded on what they do…not what they “tried”.

By: Mike Curtis

Mike Curtis — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:47:04 +0000

I challenge my “trying” students to prepare for a life where it is acceptable for them to take their car to a mechanic who almost fixes the problem, to watch news reels that show how an astronaut almost hits the moon, and to be confident that a physician who received a license for almost getting the right answers will be working on their heart valves. A few of them actually think this is humorous until they learn that they almost passed my math courses.

Plain and simple, partial credit (for trying) is rewarding poor performance.

By: Clix

Clix — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:42:04 +0000

As my mother used to say, “you’re the most trying thing I’ve seen in some time!”

By: ricki

ricki — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:14:09 +0000

“Do, or do not. There is no try” – Jedi Master Yoda.

By: Miss Eyre

Miss Eyre — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:21:48 +0000

I detest when students told me that they “tried.” A “tried” essay will have some writing on the paper in some various condition of order and sense, even if that order and sense is not perhaps top quality. A “tried” essay, though, usually means “I didn’t feel like it” or, more accurately, “I’m allergic to hard work, which may include looking through my notes, homework assignments, rough drafts, and other scaffoldings to put together a finished draft.” A “tried” essay, as students usually imagine it, is a big fat space full of nothing.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:33:37 +0000

Here’s another shocking piece of information; real estate near noisy areas (i.e. airports, subways and freeways) is typically cheaper. Less affluent individuals tend to live in areas with depressed real estate values. Coincedentially, or not, less affluent individuals typically perform poorly academically.

Good lord.