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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Remind us of how that's different than the humanities.  |
Did I say anything about concepts and partial credit with the humanities? No. In what way does giving partial credit for a student knowing the definition of a concept not understanding the concept thus not getting full credit for the question go against the idea that science courses are more concrete than humanities courses in many ways? Are you giving style points because he used better vocabulary to define it? No. It is a concrete definition. It is a partial answer. Personally, most of my professors wouldn't have given any points, but no one said the sciences were immune to any grade padding. Whether or not grade inflation is worse in the humanities than science was the author of this articles assertion not mine. I simply proposed why I thought that might be.