The credibility of a grading system is important. However, more important is that of a teacher's marking.
There's no point pacifying us by saying something infront and yet, act out differently when dealing with the people in question. Is it fair to award a person higher marks when she deliberately did not want to turn up the next day (which is the already extended deadline you offered) by using MC as an excuse and yet u accept her folio a few days after that? All of us are very busy people and yet we have to find time to juggle all our assignments. No one should have unfair advantage in terms of time and yet get rewarded for it.
Is it fair to award the highest marks to someone who submit the 5 pieces but were works not done during lesson time? No.
Is it fair to award the highest marks to someone who submitted the folio on time and yet did not follow instructions and did everything on A3 instead of A4. Hence having more space to work on? No too.
All these point to unfairness and yet what can the rest of us do?
Utterly disappointed. These only show how unprofessional you are. Yes, you may think that you are trying to inculcate positive values in them and hoping that they will also give their future students chance. But that's not the way. You were right when you said that they wouldn't be able to survive in the working world whereby all work will come in at the same time and any postponement will result in work crashing in on them sooner or later. But from the way you practice the grading system, I don't think you are actually helping matters. Since they had the cheek to not turn up the next day to submit their folios (coincidentally both were sick), they already showed that they did not respect you at all.
You once asked me if there should be any restriction in art (somehow you are always asking for my humble opinions). I replied that so long as assessment is involved, there should be. To this day, I still stick to my answer. When there is assessment, there will surely be rules to abide by. What is the point of not assessing based on the rules stipulated? Defeats the purpose of having them in the first place right? Eg: if I were to ask the class to draw a challenging- looking object and a student were to give me a fantastic piece of collage instead. Would it be fair to the rest of the struggling students if I were to grade the student based on the collage instead of marking him/ her down for not producing the work which I wanted in the first place? Would it be fair to the rest of the students if I were to extend the deadline just for the student TWICE and in the end give him/ her a higher grade without penalising for late work?
Serendipity believed today at 1:13 AM
