1st Edition
Making the Grade The Academic Side of College Life
Edited By Howard S. Becker
Copyright 1995
170 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
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Routledge
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Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection. With rare intervals in crisis moments, student life has always been dominated by grades and grade point averages. The authors of Making the Grade maintain that, though it has taken different forms from tune to... Read more
1 Studying College Students: The Nature of Our Problem 2 The University of Kansas 3 The Grade Point Average Perspective 4 Definition of the Situation: Organizational Rules and the Importance of Grades 5 Definition of the Situation: Faculty-Student Interaction 6 Information and the Organization of Activity 7 The Pursuit of Grades 8 Bases of Judgment and Evaluation 9 Evidence for the Existence of the Grade Point Average Perspective 10 Conclusion
Biography
Becker, Howard S.
