Are all students this stupid?

[Jim Kinnear]

Seems to me, folks, not just students, are so obsessed with being 'right',
that they have lost sight of the original quest, that is the 'learning' part
. .
Who ever gets things 'right ' the first time ?. . don't we learn from
mistakes . .
and therefore the process should, or could be more valuable than the actual
content in many cases . . .
We all are better techs, in many cases be ause of the mistakes we made along
the way . .

I think all levels of education put way too much emphasis on testing and
results, at least in the early stages. . . .
i'm glad doctors have to pass exams before they are let loose on us . .  but
even then they don't have to get 100% to pass . . .hmmmmm

Jim k

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: Are all students this stupid?


|
| >If I only learned one thing from teaching it is that, if there is the
| >LEAST bit of ambiguity in a question, the students will find it, grab it
| >and use it to try to justify ANY answer as being correct.
|
| As a former inmate, er, student, I found altogether too many questions
that
| required reading the teacher's mind as to which of the many possible
| implications might be the "right" answer to the many ill conceived and
| poorly worded questions. If the "right" answer is rationally and
reasonably
| arguable, it's not a good question in the first place. Give the teacher a
C-.
|
| Ron N
|
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