Category: Grading
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What Students Expect from their Teachers: Roles and Responsibilities of Teachers
Core of the following talk was presented at 3rd Conference of Deans and Directors of Business Schools organized by NBEAC at PC Lahore, Feb17-18, 2016. The talk was presented during the session Roles and Responsibilities of Business Schools’ Teachers: Perspectives of Students. This talk is based on my experiences of managing the expectations of students…
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Who Fails when a Student Fails
Should not this be true also for schools? Are we willing to take responsibility of the failure of our students? We conveniently try to shift the blame to the student, or to his genetic intelligence, or to his learning disability, or to his psychological deficiency, or to his parents, or to his family, or to his…
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Testing/Grading vs Motivation: A Variation on Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle for Academics
Testing/Grading vs Motivation: A Variation on Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle for Academics Whenever there is a discussion of the performance of students, lack of motivation of students is the most frequent complaint of nearly all the teachers, whether in higher education institutions or in schools, whether today or 20 years ago. Performance of students and hence…
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13 Myths of Schooling and Education: Resources
Myths of Schooling and Education: Resources There are popular “Myths” about education and schools that have become a matter of unquestionable belief for a large section of population during the industrial age. See Changing Education Paradigms by Ken Robinson Many successful and great people have busted these myths through their own personal achievements, examples, research and successful…
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Fairness in Grading: A Lesson by the Great Dijkstra
Fairness in Grading: A Lesson by the Great Dijkstra In my another post “Beauty is Our Business: Mathematics and Dijkstra“, I describe how I came to be enrolled with Dijkstra at UT Austin in the course Capita Selecta and how he and his students understood the meaning of beauty and excellence. But, my intention of…
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Can Grades and Degrees Measure the Success of Students?
Can Grades and Degrees Measure the Success of Students? We see schools in Pakistan proudly displaying their biggest achievement as the number of A grades secured or the number of positions obtained in board examinations. There seems to be a mad rush to secure a large number of A’s with the benchmark recently set at…
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Structural Paradigm of Schools: Foundations and Assumptions
Current Education Paradigm [1] Schools anywhere in the world share a common paradigm that was determined by the demands of the Industrial Revolution. In this post we identify the structural elements underlying the current paradigm. Many of the underlying assumptions of these structural elements are being questioned in the light of the transition to knowledge…