Nathan bowers pointed me to this five year old cool tools entry on the book art fear.
Quantity vs quality experiment by the ceramic teacher.
He turned to the other half.
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups.
Although i am not at all ready to call software development art perhaps craft would be more appropriate or engineering if you re feeling generous the parallels between some of the advice offered here and my experience writing software are profound.
To one half he told them they only had to produce one perfect pot by the end of the semester and they would get an a.
Learn new skills complete challenges and build a portfolio of fun projects.
02 aug 2008 quantity always trumps quality.
Choose from a variety of steam topics like drawing and engineering.
All those on the left side of the studio he said would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced all those on the right solely on its quality.
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In the vision described by the national science education standards assessment is a primary feedback mechanism in the science education system.
They would be graded solely on the amount of work they produced.
Most previous studies of the effects of family circumstances on children s performance have been very narrowly focused.
An alternative method of avoiding selection bias is to either randomly assign teachers to students as in the tennessee class size experiment or to exploit situations where there is an exogenous change in student assignments to teachers or in teachers to training.
Everyone on the left side of the classroom he explained would be in the quantity group.
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This story from the book art fear by david bayles and ted orland popped up in a favorite technology blog yesterday.
Of quantity quality trade offs and as a by product gives new insights into the interaction between families and schools and into variations in school and teacher quality.
On the final day of class he would tally the number of photos submitted by each student.
A high school pottery teacher split his class in half.
Which is better for writers.
For example assessment data provide students with feedback on how well they are meeting the expectations of their.
Have employed this approach.