Re: Varsity Blues
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 10:18 pm
everything: you read my mind! (Fixed)
Ian: Sorry, I added "and vice versa." Happy to hear your point of view of course, though.
Steve: I agree that we want students who excel - and of course, tests are not necessarily the best judge of a person. But how do we use qualitative judgment in a way that is fair (and not personal/subjective/not easily manipulated for money/legacy/athletics/etc.)?
The "job done" problem is a big one - very pervasive in Asia. In Japan, you can graduate mostly by actually going to classes; the 4th year almost noone actually is at school. And the parents are definitely very pushy ("how DARE you fail my child!"). Working in Japan, I see a lot of new graduates who learned very, very little (nothing to mention) in the "4 years" of university. Yet strangely, they look down on those who didn't go, or who only went to 2-year colleges.
Ian: Sorry, I added "and vice versa." Happy to hear your point of view of course, though.
Steve: I agree that we want students who excel - and of course, tests are not necessarily the best judge of a person. But how do we use qualitative judgment in a way that is fair (and not personal/subjective/not easily manipulated for money/legacy/athletics/etc.)?
The "job done" problem is a big one - very pervasive in Asia. In Japan, you can graduate mostly by actually going to classes; the 4th year almost noone actually is at school. And the parents are definitely very pushy ("how DARE you fail my child!"). Working in Japan, I see a lot of new graduates who learned very, very little (nothing to mention) in the "4 years" of university. Yet strangely, they look down on those who didn't go, or who only went to 2-year colleges.