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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach a business class that involves some technical work and some writing. It's of course not as mathematically rigorous as an engineering course and not as tough or as intense in writing as a humanities course would be. But, it requires a lot of analysis, thinking on your feet, and without decent math and writing skills the students would not perform well. I've taught the same class for 15 years. Although the textbook has changed over the years and I've made small modifications to the lessons and topics, the expectations, grading, and mix of assignments has largely remained constant. So, an easy way to figure out if students are coming in less prepared is to see if I have to curve grades up more often or to a larger extent to meet the desired grading target (mine is an upper level class that is specific to a certain major, and I aim for around a 3.4 median GPA). The answer to this is a definite no. If anything, I have had to do less grade inflation over the years and I have been trying to search for ways to make the class harder without making it straight up unfair (like bringing questions out of a footnote in the textbook or in a format that we never even briefly discussed in class). Every year I have a couple of students who just should not be pursuing college at all, and every year I have some superstars. The reality is that when they go out and get a job, most of the well paying jobs don't even require a superstar intellect or stellar critical thinking skills. Most well paying jobs merely require a decent work ethic, a decent attention to detail, and decent people skills.[/quote]

Your opinion is interesting and an outlier.[/quote]

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