Re: Would like to find study group for computer science comprehensive exams.

In article <ffkk9r$k9d$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dr A. N. Walker <anw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
somewhere around second year of university, assessment is mostly
pretty daft. We should just educate people, and let them find
their own level in employment [or life].

Can you cite any educational research to back up this conclusion? Based on
anecdotal evidence, I find that a lot of people fall into the category of
will-work-hard-if-threatened-with-assessment-but-won't-otherwise. This is
true both in school and in the workplace. It's nice to believe that
everyone falls into either the category of wonderfully-self-motivated or
the category of won't-be-productive-even-if-assessed, but that sounds to
me like an ideological statement rather than one backed by empirical
studies.
--
Tim Chow tchow-at-alum-dot-mit-dot-edu
The range of our projectiles---even ... the artillery---however great, will
never exceed four of those miles of which as many thousand separate us from
the center of the earth. ---Galileo, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
.

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