From dmeadows@idirect.com Fri Mar 14 06:09:34 2003 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.133]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.03/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h2EE9XCK041538 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:09:33 -0800 Received: from parsec.look.ca (parsec.look.ca [207.136.80.122]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.03/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h2EE9Tg8003552 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:09:29 -0800 Received: from on-ham-a53-02-124.look.ca ([216.154.52.60] helo=raoul) by parsec.look.ca with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 18tpsE-0007kk-00 for classics@u.washington.edu; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:09:27 +0000 From: David Meadows To: X-Mailer: PocoMail 2.6 (1006) - EVALUATION VERSION Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:08:06 -0500 X-URL: http://www.pocomail.com/ In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Subject: Re: a modern Controuersia Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=7.3 tests=IN_REP_TO,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05 version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=XX, Probability=20%, Report="IN_REP_TO, RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM, SPAM_PHRASE_03_05, X_OSIRU_DUL, X_OSIRU_DUL_FH, __EVITE_CTYPE, __HAS_X_MAILER" On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:29:15 +0100, James Butrica wrote: >How do you deal with the situation when you tell the student= that >you will >reconsider the mark and return the exam in the following class,= while >advising that the mark is likely to be not much higher given= that >rote >memorization of a text is not a good learning strategy and does= not >demonstrate mastery of the material -- then find that the= student >has filed >a formal complaint without waiting to find out what the revised >grade is? If he/she truly memorized it, he/she should be able to reproduce= it again ... -- David Meadows, dmeadows@idirect.com on 03/14/2003 .