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| DOI | 10.1002/tht3.506 |
| Measurement and desert: Why grades cannot be deserved | |
| Napoletano, Toby | |
| 通讯作者 | Napoletano, T (corresponding author), Univ Calif Merced, Dept Cognit & Informat Sci, Merced, CA 95343 USA. |
| 来源期刊 | THOUGHT-A JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
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| ISSN | 2161-2234 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 卷号 | 10期号:4页码:282-292 |
| 英文摘要 | It is typically thought that a student deserves-or at least can deserve-a grade in a class. The students who perform well on assessments, who display a high degree of competence, and who complete all of the required work, deserve a good grade. Students who perform poorly on assessments, who fail to understand the course material, and who fail to complete the required work, deserve a bad grade. In this paper, I raise a challenge to this conventional view about grades. In particular, I challenge the idea that grades-understood appropriately-can be objects of desert for class performance. In other words, grades are simply not the kind of thing that can be deserved. The argument is roughly as follows. In general, when some property or quality of ours is measured, where that property or quality is something that makes us deserving of something, the measurement, itself, is not the thing that is or could be deserved. Grades, however, are a measure of student performance, where performance is meant to be the basis on which students deserve their grades. Since they are mere measures of performance, grades are not and could not be deserved on the basis of performance, and so are not possible objects of desert. Rather, they serve as evidence of the desert basis (academic performance, e.g.) that grounds a student's being deserving of other objects (praise or recognition, e.g.). In short, grades, at best, measure how deserving one is, but grades themselves are not deserved. |
| 英文关键词 | desert merit grades education |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 收录类别 | AHCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000730007400001 |
| WOS类目 | Philosophy |
| WOS研究方向 | Philosophy |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/374211 |
| 作者单位 | [Napoletano, Toby] Univ Calif Merced, Dept Cognit & Informat Sci, Merced, CA 95343 USA |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Napoletano, Toby. Measurement and desert: Why grades cannot be deserved[J],2021,10(4):282-292. |
| APA | Napoletano, Toby.(2021).Measurement and desert: Why grades cannot be deserved.THOUGHT-A JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY,10(4),282-292. |
| MLA | Napoletano, Toby."Measurement and desert: Why grades cannot be deserved".THOUGHT-A JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY 10.4(2021):282-292. |
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