"Punitive grading"

[Ischiowhat]

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ie: assignments that are worth less if you do them than if you miss them.

For example....a group project or presentation might be worth 5 pts, but missing it is a 15 pt deduction.

Isn't this, like, illegal, or something, man?

Why make assignments worth anything at all, if the incentive is just to "get it done?" As it is already you get more points for handing in utter crap than nothing.

Some schools give people zeros for missed assignments, we're in the negatives.

Sometimes I wonder if we are even here to learn...

 

[cpants]

Hey what are you gonna do? Get your work done.

Actually, this kind of grading in medicine makes sense in a weird way. Your future compensation is structured in a similar way. Doing a small task to help a patient gets you little or no reward. Not doing that same task can result in huge penalty.

 

[celkon]

Hey what are you gonna do? Get your work done.

Actually, this kind of grading in medicine makes sense in a weird way. Your future compensation is structured in a similar way. Doing a small task to help a patient gets you little or no reward. Not doing that same task can result in huge penalty.

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[Knicks]

Hey what are you gonna do? Get your work done.

Actually, this kind of grading in medicine makes sense in a weird way. Your future compensation is structured in a similar way. Doing a small task to help a patient gets you little or no reward. Not doing that same task can result in huge penalty.

Perfect.

 

[twentyone]

ie: assignments that are worth less if you do them than if you miss them.

For example....a group project or presentation might be worth 5 pts, but missing it is a 15 pt deduction.

Oooo.... I like it.

It's a fight between the notion that the med student is a grownup and can choose what is right for him and the idea that you should be a good sport and participate, even if it's a little dumb.

 

[hurdlepup]

That's better than having an assignment where you can MISS more points than you can if you simply didn't complete anything.

My first O-Chem test would land you a -20 or so if you managed to get everything wrong, but a 0 if you just wrote your name on it and handed it in...

Good thinking, prof..

 

[Marcus Brody]

Hey what are you gonna do? Get your work done.

Actually, this kind of grading in medicine makes sense in a weird way. Your future compensation is structured in a similar way. Doing a small task to help a patient gets you little or no reward. Not doing that same task can result in huge penalty.

Oooo.... I like it.

It's a fight between the notion that the med student is a grownup and can choose what is right for him and the idea that you should be a good sport and participate, even if it's a little dumb.

Perfect.

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Sad how quickly people assume that 'how things are' = 'how things should be.'

 

[Knicks]

Sad how quickly people assume that 'how things are' = 'how things should be.'

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=10340949#post10340949

 

[cpants]

Sad how quickly people assume that 'how things are' = 'how things should be.'

I didn't assume anything. I said get your work done, and then made a comparison to how future compensation follows a similar structure, so maybe the OP should get used to it now. Honestly, you have to pick your battles, and this isn't one worth fighting. I don't know how it should be, but this policy really doesn't seem too outrageous.