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发表于 2005-12-26 23:52:34 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

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The following appeared in a memorandum from a dean at Omega University.
"Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by thirty percent. Potential employers apparently believe the grades at Omega are inflated; this would explain why Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should now terminate student evaluation of professors."

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It had been held believed that, by a dean of Omega University(OU), the Teaching Performance Evaluation (TPE) Program aiming at OU's professors was the backhanded causation of making OU's graduates in low employments bearing an contrary with Alpha university (AU)’s. To support of such conclusion, the author reasons that the program made OU's professors begin to assign higher grades in their classes, and directly gained in overall inflated GPA. Based on above judgment, the author alleged that inflated high GPA makes employers in confident crisis and incline to provide no job occupations. At first glance, the allegance seems to be plausible, but under a thorough scrutiny, it bears with lots of fallacies.

First of all, there reveals no causal relationship that TPE program would compel professors to assign higher grades in their classes. Many other factors may undermine the causation of it. Firstly, TPE program may urge professors to improve their teaching plans and implementations, and students may be attracted and mobilized in study. it certainly will make students obtain high grades. Moreover, perhaps some unprincipled professors may intend to assign higher grades by some reason, but it is suspicious that a majority of them would do the same. And another specious evidence should also be taken into consideration, grading standard may be totally different than that of fifteen year ago, this factor may result in OU's GPA rising by thirty percent. IF all above stand fast, it would be sheer folly to eliminate readers' suspicion.

And more, Even OU's GPA challenges it's faith, it seems to be overstated that the GPA is the only reason that makes employers be chary of their' offers. For one thing, GPA is not the only condition which employers hire their employees. Perhaps OU's graduates are lack of the ability to solve problem or intention to be a good team player. For another, there is no evidence that OU's fame would increase graduates’ advantage in job-finding. Even worst of all, on the assumption that OU ultimately cancels it's TPE program, can more faithful GPA be able to please the employers? Absolutely not, if and only if OU could present a comprehensive survey which validates the assumption, I will certainly support OU's presidents to terminate the TPE program instead.

In addition, another threshold problem with the argument involves with nearby AU's high employment. The analogy provides no proof that distrust of employers in reason of inflated GPA, would all the same reflect on OU's low employment. In contrast to AU, Perhaps OU's is not famous for it's place in a competition , or it's course assignments is too poor to be in favor of employer's requirements. Even of worse consideration, OU's graduates is not well educated so as to be not qualified in job markets. If all above hold up in facts, it is possible that OU's graduates will gain no significant advantages in hunting jobs than AU's competitors.

Last but not least, in order to ameliorate employment ratio of OU's graduates the author commits an causal slip by suggesting that OU should terminate the TPE program. Granted that, the overall economic of OU nearby is very poor, thus there exits no abundant occupations for redundant employees. Needless to say, no boom would bear the fruit of TPE's termination. More and more, Even if some professors’ immorality should be blamed for inflation of GPA. Obviously, there lies no reason that TPE program's disadvantage is much than it's improvement. Therefore, OU's administers also should rely the termination of TPE program on the acknowledgement of other universities which entangle with similar programs and effects.

All in all, the conclusion reached in this argument is lack of objectivity and maybe misleading. To make the argument more convincing, the author should provide sound reasoning of causation among TPE program ,inflated GPA, and employment. The author also needs to guarantee inflated GPA is for sure the aftermath of the TPE program. What's more, readers would like to know similar program's effect in other universities, so as to better evaluate this argument.

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