On 9/21/2011 3:20 AM, Invisible wrote:

> A student's grades should *always* be based on fixed criteria. Otherwise
> the grades only compare you to your classmates. Well guess what?
> Employers aren't interested in whether you're better than your
> classmates or not. (You're probably never going to see them ever again
> anyway.) They're interested in whether you're capable of doing a given
> job. A relative grade doesn't tell them that; an absolute one could.

One may be qualified for the job, and is fully capable. But the other 
may have better qualifications. It *is* relative in the real world. But, 
I do agree that grading should be based on a fixed criteria. Grading is 
a means of checking to see if the student has learned what was taught, 
and what areas need more work.

-- 
~Mike

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