I would love to see one
person teaching and a different one grading. Better yet, a panel of credentialed faculty grading
assignments to ensure the student learning outcomes are met. This way, the same
person teaching does not rate their own student’s learning success. Is the
better teacher the one with all the A’s in class or the one with well-distributed
grades? We can’t tell by just this information. Then, there is after the
course.
How do the students do after your class in another course? That’s more telling than grades. I have students in my quantitative analysis classes
that sometimes cannot convert decimals to percentages. I mean, I am stopped in
the middle of class when I say there is a 6% probability of xyz (wait, Dr. C.
where did the 6% come from?). So, I
start with another problem and work it out and I get the same question.
Eventually, I realize that I omitted the automatic step of .06 = 6% because to me that is common knowledge.
Does that mean that their
algebra teacher failed? What about their elementary school teacher? Well, probably
not. These may be students that did not do well in these sorts of subjects to
begin with. Maybe, they were barely passed with a C, which means they potentially
do not understand 30% of the material (or even more).
The bottom line is that there
should be a better system to ensure that all of the required objectives are met
by the student and not just 70% of them.
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