Re: NY State Physics Regents exams

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

Oh!   A generalized permission.


Just short of a year (the deadline) after I gave a final and a ? the
student arrived at my home with a change grade form.  Fortunately I had a
record of all his work and his final.  Since it was a ? ++ and he heeded a
? next to transfer to the state U.,  I gave it too him with the admonition
that if he didn't succeed it would reflect badly on the reputation of the
Community College.  I think it already had the dean or chair's signature.
Earlier I had discussed grading with a colleague.  His comment was we had
little control at the school except grading where it was absolute.  He
forgot  I was PT temp. and didn't want to give too many D's, as I wanted to
stay.

bc -- the most fun course I've taught, Engineering Materials with Lab.,
because I learned sooo much.


Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:42:03 -0700 Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>
> writes:
> > Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
> >
> > *** In New York State the final grades are given by the teacher
> >  before students sit for their regents exams. If the regents
> >  exam score is much higher, or lower, the teacher may raise
> >  or lower the student's grade with permission.
>
> Bernard Cleyet asks...
> Pray tell, whose permission?
>
> *** Permission to change a student's grade, after it has been
> submitted by a teacher, varies greatly from time to time and
> from school to school.
>
> We have all heard of schools where a principal takes it upon
> himself to change a student grade when the teacher refuses to do so.
> However, this is rare. Sometimes it is the teacher himself
> who obtains access to the school records and changes the grade.
> It would be interesting to poll the members of this list-serve
> and ask them whose permission is required for them to change
> a student grade in their school.
>
> In my school, it was the department chairman or the principal who
> had to be consulted before a teacher could change a grade.
> But the teacher himself made the final decision.
>
> Herb Gottlieb from New York City
> (Where teachers NEVER make a mistake when compiling
> a student's final grade ..... Well ....... Hardly ever!)_