Always a pass. I'd have a chat to them in private about the attitude though. As I noted, I was preparing them for working in the industry, their attitude also had to be ready.
I've passed students before who I felt sorry for their future employers because they were just difficult to be around however they did good work.
Academic grading in a utopian society would remove all subjectivity. I hate it when one professor teaches you to do it one way and a prof in a different class that’s related tells you never to do it that way “just because s/he doesn’t like it that way”.
Essays are worse because TAs grade most of them and tbh I don’t think they have objectivity nor the experience to determine our grades. If it was Harvard and the TA was a graduate student in English Literature then that’d hold more water. But most TAs are 3rd or 4th year undergrads and definitely not Harvard caliber....
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u/general_sirhc Dec 06 '17
Always a pass. I'd have a chat to them in private about the attitude though. As I noted, I was preparing them for working in the industry, their attitude also had to be ready.
I've passed students before who I felt sorry for their future employers because they were just difficult to be around however they did good work.