Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Killfiled, was DNA Offers New Insight Concerning Cat Evolution

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Vern Green wrote:

> While I am not sure what the term TEQ means, maybe you can clarify that 
> and my remarks will be more to the point.
>
> If you are saying that your students do not particularly like you 
> because of some reason, then I would say, that has never been an issue 
> with me. I don't mind a hard instructor, in fact I love hard 
> instructors, as long as they make themselves and their expectations 
> clear and they follow those expectations.
>
> If you are fair, you set the ground rules and expectations up front and 
> you stick to them, I don't care if you are the meanest professor in the 
> place.


What you are saying is true, I think, for most students, but certainly not 
all of them.  The key, as you point out, is fairness.  But sometimes hard 
exams are seen as unfair.  If a professor makes students work very hard 
and learn a ton, but then he gives As to only 5% of them, many will see 
that as unfair and he'll lose points on the TEQ (teacher evaluation 
questionnaire).  This is probably one of the major causes of "grade 
inflation" in recent decades.

Mike

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