December 09, 2018
Columbia to let Students grade themselves
Timothy Birdnow
I came across this at Zerohedge. Columbia University wants to let students grade themselves.
From the blogpost:
According to a Columbia University PowerPoint presentation Trusting Students to Assess Themselves, inclusive grading starts by "trusting students to assess themselves.â€
I picked that link up from Columbia University Seminar to Promote ‘Inclusive Grading’.
Teachers don't know how to grade or don't want to take the time.
Honor Code
Not to worry. Columbia university will ask students to sign a pledge card so they won't cheat. That's sure to fix everything.​
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Gee; self grading? Now what could possibly go wrong with that?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I wouldn't feel comfortable going to a self-graded medical doctor, or driving in a car designed by a self-graded engineer. Maybe it's just me.
This is illustrative of how relativism has overtaken all of academia. AS Nietzche predicted, academia has reached the point where it no longer believes in the fundamentals of science and research; they have become nihiliistic, doubting that anything can be known and so promoting everyone's private beliefs as true - at least for them. It should be pointed out that insanity is holding a private reality over what can be seen, measured, assessed, understood.
In short, Columbia is promoting madness.
No society can survive without being grounded in reality. If this continues America is doomed.
I came across this at Zerohedge. Columbia University wants to let students grade themselves.
From the blogpost:
According to a Columbia University PowerPoint presentation Trusting Students to Assess Themselves, inclusive grading starts by "trusting students to assess themselves.â€
I picked that link up from Columbia University Seminar to Promote ‘Inclusive Grading’.
Teachers don't know how to grade or don't want to take the time.
Honor Code
Not to worry. Columbia university will ask students to sign a pledge card so they won't cheat. That's sure to fix everything.​
End excerpt.
Gee; self grading? Now what could possibly go wrong with that?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I wouldn't feel comfortable going to a self-graded medical doctor, or driving in a car designed by a self-graded engineer. Maybe it's just me.
This is illustrative of how relativism has overtaken all of academia. AS Nietzche predicted, academia has reached the point where it no longer believes in the fundamentals of science and research; they have become nihiliistic, doubting that anything can be known and so promoting everyone's private beliefs as true - at least for them. It should be pointed out that insanity is holding a private reality over what can be seen, measured, assessed, understood.
In short, Columbia is promoting madness.
No society can survive without being grounded in reality. If this continues America is doomed.
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No society can survive without being grounded in reality. If this continues America is doomed.
As I'm very sure you know yourself deep down, "America" as such is "doomed", because nothing but the harshest of reality will end this.
Kipling's "Gods of the Copybook Headings", or in r/K theory as applied to humans, our environment shifting from these easy times of trillion dollar deficits (again!) allowing a quasi-infinite amount dyscivic behavior, to K selected where it's "root, hog, or die".
In case you're not familiar with that theory, in r selected times of plenty in-group/out-group games are the best way to complete, they have the highest payoffs. For individuals, "rabbits" for example remove people from a position by outgrouping them, doesn't matter if they're r or K selected although the K "wolves" are the more dangerous, then another r selected group member can take his place.
K selected times are very different—K selected people, think for example inside the Hajanl line—the strategies are different, competition itself takes something of a back seat to the struggle for mere survival. Note that the environment is not an absolute determining factor, as what's outside the Hajanl line attests, or the ugly example of the Kurds, who keep themselves r selected when times get hard by starving first their girls, then their boys, so there's never a group that develops who've really lived through the extremes and thus been molded into K adaption.
As I'm very sure you know yourself deep down, "America" as such is "doomed", because nothing but the harshest of reality will end this.
Kipling's "Gods of the Copybook Headings", or in r/K theory as applied to humans, our environment shifting from these easy times of trillion dollar deficits (again!) allowing a quasi-infinite amount dyscivic behavior, to K selected where it's "root, hog, or die".
In case you're not familiar with that theory, in r selected times of plenty in-group/out-group games are the best way to complete, they have the highest payoffs. For individuals, "rabbits" for example remove people from a position by outgrouping them, doesn't matter if they're r or K selected although the K "wolves" are the more dangerous, then another r selected group member can take his place.
K selected times are very different—K selected people, think for example inside the Hajanl line—the strategies are different, competition itself takes something of a back seat to the struggle for mere survival. Note that the environment is not an absolute determining factor, as what's outside the Hajanl line attests, or the ugly example of the Kurds, who keep themselves r selected when times get hard by starving first their girls, then their boys, so there's never a group that develops who've really lived through the extremes and thus been molded into K adaption.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 09, 2018 10:39 AM (FPIRN)
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We think alike Anonymous! Oh, and thanks for the information about R and K.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at December 10, 2018 09:05 AM (9jcVO)
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You're very welcome. And while it has obvious limits, r/K theory as applied to people has fantastic explanatory value, it can be very useful. Oh, and if you're at all science/biology inclined, and haven't read The Selfish Gene, you might want to give that a try. Among other things, the last chapter launched the meme of memes....
(Yeah, Dawkins is a now (in)famous atheist, but that doesn't matter, or is even obvious in this 1976 book, as long as you've got some flexibility about evolution.)
(Yeah, Dawkins is a now (in)famous atheist, but that doesn't matter, or is even obvious in this 1976 book, as long as you've got some flexibility about evolution.)
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