My midterm exam was today, and I think I made it too hard. I haven't finished grading it, but I don't have any student who is likely to get perfect, and many who got very little completely right. It is my own damned fault, because most of the problems in the exam were multi-faceted and conceptually rich. Now I have the job of reassuring them that I won't kill them at grading time. Evaluation is very tricky, because it creates an adversarial relationship between student and teacher, exactly when cooperation and trust are required for learning.
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