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I decided to follow up situation to yesterday, which has pretty
much played itself out;this one does not involve cats, and I
double spaced it to make it easier to read.
Hopefully it will get you guys to think-that is the point.
This one is a little bit closer to home re:the David Ortiz, but
there are differences.
The point of this thread is not for you to state why/how the
circumstances differ from Ortiz, but simply to get you to think
through a somewhat similar set of circumstances.
It is a bit shorter than yesterday.
Anyways lets assume that you are a high school teacher and
teach Middle School Science.
Lets also assume at the end of each month during the school
year you give a 25 question multiple choice test.
Lets say you have a kid in the class, and lets call him Charlie
Cheater.
Ok-now lets assume that Charlie appears to be an average at
best, seems to be sort of uninterested in class, etc.
Anyways, during the months of Sept., October and November,
he gets grades of 68, 72 and 68 again on the monthly test
score.
All of a sudden on the test at the end of December, he gets a
grade of 92.
Shortly after than you find an anonymous note on your desk
presumably from another kid in the class stating that he/she
knows for a fact that Charlie cheated, copying the answers
from another kid in the class whose desk is right next to
Charlies, lets call him Bobby TheBrain.
Anyways you immediately get out the two tests and compare.
Lets say Bobby got 100, meaning in your mind that if Charlie
did cheat, he might have deliberately changed a couple of
answers to try to make it look a little bit different from
Bobby's so as not to arouse suspicion.
You decide NOT to question Charlie about this at this point,
figuring he wouldn't admit it even if he did cheat.
A week later you move a number of people around in your
including Charlie and give some made up reason for doing it
(hopefully the kids will buy it)-obviously the real reason is that
you want to know if Charlie did cheat and how he will do
if he surrounded with different folks.
You surround Charlie with average kids like him who never got
a higher grade than 76 during the first three months, and
obviously Bobby's desk is nowhere near Charlie's.
Anyways and to try to make this more concise, during the
next four months you notice that Charlie seems to be a bit
more attentive in class, happier and gets test scores of 88,
92, 96 during the months of January, February and March.
You get no more anonymous notes stating that Charlie
cheated.
Now in April, May and June, things change-Charlie seems
less attentive in class a little less happy and seems to be
going back to his old ways-his monthly test scores for those
months are 72, 68 and 72.
Now lets say you call Charlie into your office and ask him why
he thinks he is reverting back to his old ways.
Lets say Charlie just shrugs his shoulders and doesn't give you
an answer or at least any kind of answer which makes sense to
you.
Now here is my question for you as a teacher:
What is your overall conclusion out of this?
A couple of possibilites are 1) that Charlie was simply happier
and perhaps more interested in the subject material during the
months he did well;perhaps his family situation was better.
Things deteriorated ever that-he was bored with the subject
matter, he was unhappy for a variety of reasons, something
happened in his personal or family situation to cause this,
etc.
2) Charlie somehow was able to continue cheating(assuming
you believe he cheated during December) during the
months of January, February and March(for the
record, lets say that Bobby,who was not seated near Charlie
during those months also did well, although the few questions
het wrong were different from those of Charlie).
The reason that Charlie's grades once again went downhill
was that he was no longer able to cheat.
Is your opinion #1, #2, somewhere in between or something
entirely different.
Lets hear what you think and why.
much played itself out;this one does not involve cats, and I
double spaced it to make it easier to read.
Hopefully it will get you guys to think-that is the point.
This one is a little bit closer to home re:the David Ortiz, but
there are differences.
The point of this thread is not for you to state why/how the
circumstances differ from Ortiz, but simply to get you to think
through a somewhat similar set of circumstances.
It is a bit shorter than yesterday.
Anyways lets assume that you are a high school teacher and
teach Middle School Science.
Lets also assume at the end of each month during the school
year you give a 25 question multiple choice test.
Lets say you have a kid in the class, and lets call him Charlie
Cheater.
Ok-now lets assume that Charlie appears to be an average at
best, seems to be sort of uninterested in class, etc.
Anyways, during the months of Sept., October and November,
he gets grades of 68, 72 and 68 again on the monthly test
score.
All of a sudden on the test at the end of December, he gets a
grade of 92.
Shortly after than you find an anonymous note on your desk
presumably from another kid in the class stating that he/she
knows for a fact that Charlie cheated, copying the answers
from another kid in the class whose desk is right next to
Charlies, lets call him Bobby TheBrain.
Anyways you immediately get out the two tests and compare.
Lets say Bobby got 100, meaning in your mind that if Charlie
did cheat, he might have deliberately changed a couple of
answers to try to make it look a little bit different from
Bobby's so as not to arouse suspicion.
You decide NOT to question Charlie about this at this point,
figuring he wouldn't admit it even if he did cheat.
A week later you move a number of people around in your
including Charlie and give some made up reason for doing it
(hopefully the kids will buy it)-obviously the real reason is that
you want to know if Charlie did cheat and how he will do
if he surrounded with different folks.
You surround Charlie with average kids like him who never got
a higher grade than 76 during the first three months, and
obviously Bobby's desk is nowhere near Charlie's.
Anyways and to try to make this more concise, during the
next four months you notice that Charlie seems to be a bit
more attentive in class, happier and gets test scores of 88,
92, 96 during the months of January, February and March.
You get no more anonymous notes stating that Charlie
cheated.
Now in April, May and June, things change-Charlie seems
less attentive in class a little less happy and seems to be
going back to his old ways-his monthly test scores for those
months are 72, 68 and 72.
Now lets say you call Charlie into your office and ask him why
he thinks he is reverting back to his old ways.
Lets say Charlie just shrugs his shoulders and doesn't give you
an answer or at least any kind of answer which makes sense to
you.
Now here is my question for you as a teacher:
What is your overall conclusion out of this?
A couple of possibilites are 1) that Charlie was simply happier
and perhaps more interested in the subject material during the
months he did well;perhaps his family situation was better.
Things deteriorated ever that-he was bored with the subject
matter, he was unhappy for a variety of reasons, something
happened in his personal or family situation to cause this,
etc.
2) Charlie somehow was able to continue cheating(assuming
you believe he cheated during December) during the
months of January, February and March(for the
record, lets say that Bobby,who was not seated near Charlie
during those months also did well, although the few questions
het wrong were different from those of Charlie).
The reason that Charlie's grades once again went downhill
was that he was no longer able to cheat.
Is your opinion #1, #2, somewhere in between or something
entirely different.
Lets hear what you think and why.
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