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About The Author
Dr. Michael Burer is Assistant Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. He is the assistant project director for the NET Bible and has contributed various studies to the bible.org site. His first book - A New Reader's Lexicon of the Greek New Testament, co-authored with Jeff Miller - was published Fall of 2008.
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I was told once (as a student) to not look at my grades, at least the important ones. Behind this statement, I think, was the question of goal/focus of the student. What is the student's goal in doing work on any given project or for any given course: The understanding?, a skill-set?, grade?, a degree requirement? Only two of those goals can be measured by a course grade or gpa (individual assignments are different).
If the student is contract grading every course for the sake of family-work-school balance, then course grades & gpa have less significance. (contract grading is aiming for less than 100 by only doing a portion of the work)
Your thoughts?