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I would say I measure quality of product.
My student's don't get any
credit for spending 10 hours on a lab report.
They get credit for
turning in a good lab report. If it's good, I don't care if they
cranked it out in 30 minutes or 10 hours.
I am close enough to my
students to know it's a rare student who can go from raw data to a
good report in 30 minutes, yet I have a fair number of students who
think they can do a good report in 30 minutes. They don't get good
grades, and are apt to complain that the only way to get a good grade
in my class is to spend more time than they have available.
They're
correct that they need to spend more time. They're not correct that
the time is unavailable. They might be correct if they say their
other courses don't require as much time.
That's where I have my problem.
I don't like it when the average student thinks my classes
require too much time. They would be less likely to say this if
their other professors held them to a higher quality of product that
required them to spend similar time to what they spend for my
courses. So it's not that I want the other profs to require
busy-work to get more time-on-task. Rather, I want the other profs
to require a quality of product for which the average student needs
to spend a reasonable amount of time on the product.