When I was in college, a
number of my peers lived by the slogan “D’s get to degrees”. Most of the
time they weren’t being serious, but it’s alarming that there is truth in such
a silly statement.
Just because we sat in our seat in the classroom for three hours a week, took notes and were able score higher than 65% on exams, we somehow were experts in Finance or History or Marketing, etc. Oh, and expected to be ready to enter the workforce--skilled and well prepared.
It’s time to move forward, a time for students to be evaluated on what they know, not how much time they’ve spent in a class. NY Times columnist Tom Friedman, quoting historian Walter Russell Mead, “Institutions of higher learning must move from a model of “time served” to a model of “stuff learned".”
Just because we sat in our seat in the classroom for three hours a week, took notes and were able score higher than 65% on exams, we somehow were experts in Finance or History or Marketing, etc. Oh, and expected to be ready to enter the workforce--skilled and well prepared.
It’s time to move forward, a time for students to be evaluated on what they know, not how much time they’ve spent in a class. NY Times columnist Tom Friedman, quoting historian Walter Russell Mead, “Institutions of higher learning must move from a model of “time served” to a model of “stuff learned".”
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