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Originally Posted by AOII Angel

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.

But, remind me of how this is different than the humanities. Like I said before, what you experienced with those lenient teachers was just that. The same can be said for the teachers in the maths and nonsocial sciences.

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Personally, most of my professors wouldn't have given any points, but no one said the sciences were immune to any grade padding.

Good.

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I simply proposed why I thought that might be.

You did more than that. You seemed to support and defend the assertion.

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