Re: Arbitrary Grades?????

["Rauber, Joel Phys" <RAUBERJ@mg.sdstate.edu>]

Santos,


> . . .multimeters, power supplies according to how
> they learned to do the measurement
> in the course (the question asked was to determine
> the unknown values of the components ). This was
> done "closed book"
> one semester and "open book" another semester.  . . .

Just curious, how big a difference in performance did the closed book 
semester compare to the open book semester?

> One thing that I always did was to personally grade each lab exam
> (the E/M lab course has over 600 students, WHEW.....). This was
> a little tough sometimes but I knew that the grading
> was consistant from section to section and
> any question in the grading was always resolved by me.

My god!! More curiosity, was your total teaching responsibility the 
laboratory portion of this course, and did this mean grading 600 lab reports 
every week?? Did you get to draw hazard pay??

Enquiring minds want to know.

Joel