The Leibniz vs. Newton thing?
Sorry. Why do all the instructors share one midterm?
It's to standardize the grades and what's being taught. There are about 20 instructors here teaching Calc II, and 40 teaching Calc I, so the midterms and finals are the same for all the classes to make sure that everybody's learning the same thing and that there doesn't end up being some instructors who give better grades for the same work.
This time, several of us had some constructive criticism about the first draft -- one question was worded badly, one question required way too much work for the number of points it was worth, and there was a particular type of function that was asked about far too many times while ignoring some other types. Several of the people who wrote the exam got quite insulted when anyone suggested a change to a question they'd written.
Several of the people who wrote the exam got quite insulted when anyone suggested a change to a question they'd written.
then they forgot to put out the rubber stamps with the juice and pretzels at the meeting.
{{{{{Jilli and Jilli's dad}}}}} I'm so sorry for your loss.
Vortex,I would like to eviscerate the idiots at your place of employment with a dull, rusty knife. Title fucking matters. I know.
Jilli, I am so sorry for your loss. Much peace, strength and love to you and your dad. 2011 has sucked mightily.
And then I graded quizzes from yesterday, and my students did horribly, and almost all of the errors were because they just didn't remember all the details of the things they were supposed to remember -- like, they knew a theorem that said, "If A, B, and C, then D," and they saw something where B was true and concluded that D was true without checking to see if A and C were true, too.
All sympathies to Jilli and family.
{{Jilli and Jilli's dad}} I am so sorry. And, 2011? Change yer ways, post hasty.
Jilli, I am so terribly sorry for you and your dad.
Vortex, smash them. That kind of fuckery, along with the kind of fuckery Consuela recently went through at her job, pisses me off to no end.
