It's disappointing. But I have hope for the future. And if we include the Chinese kids from the other class my pass rate improves to 18/31.
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What subject/age group was this?
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I thought I saw upon the stair a little man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today. Oh how I wish he'd go away.
9th grade Algebra
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"To truly live, one must first be born." ~ Evan [aX]
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Anything specific that they're not getting? Are the ones who are failing just the type that don't care?
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I thought I saw upon the stair a little man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today. Oh how I wish he'd go away.
I'm a geometry TA in a middle/high school accelerated math program, and I know it's hard to watch students struggle like that. Especially when your program has a built-in attrition rate so not all students are expected to make it.
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DarthMarth - Better than a bowl of Cheerios.
I think part of it comes from the transition from middle school. I've had many students not understand why they were failing because "they did all there work," to which I respond, "Yes, but none of it was done well." I feel like in the past just finishing everything was enough to pass, but that's no longer the case.
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Are they screwed if they fail the first quarter, or is it the sort of "wake the **** up, you're failing" thing I vaguely remember from high school? Like not really failing, just making them think they're failing so they'll work harder.
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I know there were a few parts in algebra that I had trouble with but never to that degree. Do they come in/and or ask for help when they don't get something?
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No, they never come in outside of class, despite my constantly asking them to.
They are not screwed, but their semester grade is cumulative, so they need to pick it up.
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The only think you need to learn in school is how to read.
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Well that is what they should be doing if they don't get something for sure.
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Well, given that they're middle-school or high-school students (I forget) as opposed to college students, they probably don't have much free time to see Mr. Cleveland, and Mr. Cleveland probably doesn't have many office hours.
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Many real-world problems are contingency problems, because exact prediction is impossible. For this reason, many people keep their eyes open while driving.
I'm curious how many people will pass the algorithms class I just dropped. The average grade is about 48%, it's graded on an absolute scale with 60% being the passing grade. Anyone who got below 50% on a midterm was supposed to fail automatically, but this was lowered to 40% after the average score was 46. When I retake it next semester I'm going to ask how many other people dropped it previously.
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DarthMarth - Better than a bowl of Cheerios.
Ha, that reminds me of my calculus teacher. He assigns grades for a course based entirely on two tests, an in-class midterm and a take-home final, each of which has just a few problems, almost all of which are hard. And he doesn't believe in partial credit—if you make a mistake, you get no credit for the problem. So he sets the minimum passing grade for each test at 10% or so, and a little under half the class flunk it.
In a course in test theory I'm taking this semester, everyone did badly. My raw score, the highest in the class of fifteen, was 78%. But the professor is, of course, an expert on test design, so he discarded the statistically bad items, which ended up improving everyone's score.
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Many real-world problems are contingency problems, because exact prediction is impossible. For this reason, many people keep their eyes open while driving.