I’m a bit incredulous about the experiment. The students’ quantity of production can always be maximized by decreasing the quality. Why wouldn’t they? (Even if the students maintain quality, how could the teacher justify assuming this in advance.)
Evaluating the study formally as an experiment, attention to quality is confounded with spending time on the work. (Reiteration is a different story, but in this case we seem to be talking about moving on to a different project, rather than perfecting a single design.) Did the students evaluated on quality produce lower quality because they spent time thinking rather than working; or because they spent too much time on a single item, trying to perfect it?
In writing, it’s important to write rather than plan to write, but it doesn’t follow that it’s important to produce a great number of products rather than ones of high quality. From personal experience, one’s writing improves by producing polished work, not by producing an abundance of it.
I agree—mere quantity is not enough… but the act of creating quantity gives a person the chance to gain the experience needed to learn how to improve the quality.
Very few people can get to Quality without going through the quantity...
Quantity is a necessary, but not sufficient condition of quality.
I’m a bit incredulous about the experiment. The students’ quantity of production can always be maximized by decreasing the quality. Why wouldn’t they? (Even if the students maintain quality, how could the teacher justify assuming this in advance.)
Evaluating the study formally as an experiment, attention to quality is confounded with spending time on the work. (Reiteration is a different story, but in this case we seem to be talking about moving on to a different project, rather than perfecting a single design.) Did the students evaluated on quality produce lower quality because they spent time thinking rather than working; or because they spent too much time on a single item, trying to perfect it?
In writing, it’s important to write rather than plan to write, but it doesn’t follow that it’s important to produce a great number of products rather than ones of high quality. From personal experience, one’s writing improves by producing polished work, not by producing an abundance of it.
I agree—mere quantity is not enough… but the act of creating quantity gives a person the chance to gain the experience needed to learn how to improve the quality.
Very few people can get to Quality without going through the quantity...
Quantity is a necessary, but not sufficient condition of quality.