ChristianKl comments on Separating university education from grading - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 04 July 2014 12:10:06PM 4 points [-]

With enough political influence, I believe the best reform would be to mandate that each programme of higher education has to fail at least a defined fraction (say a third) of the applicants.

That discourages students from cooperating. Students will help struggling class mates less when it's in their interests that those classmates fail the class.

Comment author: chaosmage 04 July 2014 12:50:54PM 0 points [-]

That's correct. But I would argue that in many cases, we don't need students to cooperate as much as we need them to compete.

Or when groups of students work on a project together, the intensified competition could happen at the group level, like competition between companies.