Re: Adjusting Grades (Was: Exams)

On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]attymail.com> wrote:
>
> My guess is that there are a couple of reasons. First, final exams are
> often curved, and a change later would throw off the curve. Second, it
> sets up some very subjective and potentially unfair dynamics. You have
> 100 students in a class. Everyone gets a grade. Only a small subset of
> students come complaining to the prof about the unfairness of this or
> that part of the prof's review of the exam.

I would distinguish between a general claim of "unfairness" and an objective and undeniable demonstration that the professor's desired answer was in error, e.g., the example here, taking points off on the ground that unpublished works cannot be subject to fair use, when the statute says the opposite.

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