No longer should students simply take written exams that they can cram for the evening before and forget the day after. There should be cumulative evaluations. There should be different methods of testing knowledge oral exams, group work, class presentations in addition to the standard research paper, three to five page report, and journal entries on the reading that no one ever does. We need a change of thought among students, too. There s definitely, to quote a professor, a feeling of entitlement among the student body.
People feel they deserve A s just for showing up for class, or for reading all the material.
B s are above-average grades. A B should be an accomplishment, not something you worry about getting. Professors don t give B s or C s as punishment. They give them as a sign of achievement. This isn t high school, kids.