Sitting down with a student questioning their final grade later today, my opening gambit will be “what do you expect to get from this meeting, given I have told you the final grade will not change?”
Why do some students have to be arsy about their final grades? it was not good enough to get a first, deal with it.
Anxiety about the future brought upon by societal pressure
And student debt…… is being tough and honest better for them or pay them on the head and tell them they deserve a participation award.
Why? Because sometimes it works. If you won't you won't but if this person does it with every grade they are not happy with their GPA will be higher.
The purpose of a system is what it does, not what it claims to do.
The education system creates this.
Educators shutting down the world's most important skills: persuasion and negotiation
The system has had to be put in place to stop every student questioning their grades in an attempt to get a higher grade than the one THEY EARNED. If this student put as much effort into seeking support during the module as they do trying to cheat the system, they would very likely have just got a better grade. They did actually get a very good grade, they just wanted it to be slightly higher.
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