My third paragraph cautions against doing or rewarding things like students who ask for lots of help from teachers even when they can do it on their own, or vice versa.
I see no need to provide a GPA to students in order to quantify numbers for other processes. What goal is served by more information than pass/fail?
Oh, so you meant external attention, rather than the attention of the student.
And, politics. A mere binary pass/fail system allows for less flexible boasting/excusing and spindoctoring the truth. .
Of course we don’t want to encourage that, but it is an existing element that would have to be dealt with somehow.
My third paragraph cautions against doing or rewarding things like students who ask for lots of help from teachers even when they can do it on their own, or vice versa.
I see no need to provide a GPA to students in order to quantify numbers for other processes. What goal is served by more information than pass/fail?
Oh, so you meant external attention, rather than the attention of the student.
And, politics. A mere binary pass/fail system allows for less flexible boasting/excusing and spindoctoring the truth. . Of course we don’t want to encourage that, but it is an existing element that would have to be dealt with somehow.