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A typical freshman course on calculus usually have likehas about 100 students every semester. SoIf the course is divided into 4 sections, each of which has like 25 students and taught bya different 4 instructorsinstructor.

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What criteriascriteria one should impose to guarantee that studentsa student's grade will only weakly depend on who is teaching him/her ? (for example we.

We are thinking about makinggiving all sections the same midterms and same finals exams to all sections. But, but obviously this is not enough)

A typical freshman course on calculus usually have like 100 students every semester. So the course is divided into 4 sections, each of which has like 25 students and taught by different 4 instructors.

Since the instructors are all different, the student grade in any section will strongly depend on who is teaching it. Lazy students would ask other students before registering who is the easy grader or who is the one who makes easy or straightforward exams...etc which makes it unfair to the rest of the students.

Have anybody out there faced the same problem? and how it was overcomed?

What criterias one should impose to guarantee that students grade will weakly depend on who is teaching him/her ? (for example we are thinking about making same midterms and same finals exams to all sections, but obviously this is not enough)

A typical freshman course on calculus has about 100 students every semester. If the course is divided into 4 sections, each has 25 students and a different instructor.

Because the instructors are different, a student's grade may strongly depend on who teaches his section. Lazy students could ask other students before registering who is the easiest grader or who makes easy or straightforward exams, etc. This is unfair to the rest of the students.

Has anybody else faced the same problem? And how did you overcome it?

What criteria one should impose to guarantee that a student's grade will only weakly depend on who is teaching him?.

We are thinking about giving all sections the same midterms and finals. But, obviously this is not enough

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Coordination of a class taught by different professors: how to be fair to the students?

A typical freshman course on calculus usually have like 100 students every semester. So the course is divided into 4 sections, each of which has like 25 students and taught by different 4 instructors.

Since the instructors are all different, the student grade in any section will strongly depend on who is teaching it. Lazy students would ask other students before registering who is the easy grader or who is the one who makes easy or straightforward exams...etc which makes it unfair to the rest of the students.

Have anybody out there faced the same problem? and how it was overcomed?

What criterias one should impose to guarantee that students grade will weakly depend on who is teaching him/her ? (for example we are thinking about making same midterms and same finals exams to all sections, but obviously this is not enough)