Grading on a curve is like a distributed system: the success/failure of a student you didn't even know existed can render your own grade unstable. (Seeing a kid's friend losing honors because some other student's parents moved out of town!) Yet another reason to not like it.
Mark
in reply to Shriram Krishnamurthi • •I think not grading on a curve assumes a professor's perfection -- a perfection I never achieved in a couple decades of teaching.
Maybe the problem is how to adjust for kids no longer in the class?
Shriram Krishnamurthi
in reply to Mark • • •