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%EDUCATION VS CERTIFICATION 730919
Within the business and governmental communities
there are situations in which there are regulations
pertaining to conflict-of-interest. In them it is
recognized that one person can not wisely and fairly play
two conflicting roles, because the state of consciousness
required by one role will interfere with wise and fair
judgments with respect to the second role. Sometimes
there are regulations which prohibit a person playing two
roles at once. On other occasions there are regulations to
insure a fair balance of power, or a system of checks and
balances.
Within education there is a long standing tradition
in which there is a conflict-of-interest which is rarely
recognized, much less regulated. Instructors are expected
to play a central role in educating students---and at the
same time play the central role in the determination of
how successful that educational process was. The conflict-
of-interest generates alienation and perverted behavior.
Some people may via collusion deny the seriousness of
the conflict-of-interest and perceive the situation as
normal; it is traditional.
Some instructors may seek to maintain standards---by
following the policy that relatively few students may earn
high grades. In response, the students may play games,
lose motivation, and/or internalize the unexamined
assumptions of the instructor. The students suffer
bureaucratic violence.
Some instructors may seek to show how effective they
are---by being generous with the awarding of many high
grades. In anticipation of this, some immature students of
may lose motivation and so spend their limited time
playing games with instructors who seek to maintain
standards.
The above conflict-of-interest puts the instructor in
a can't win situation. It would be helpful to develop a
system of mutual evaluation offering beneficial feed-back
loop effects upon the participants' motivation---and upon
their decisions and actions relevant to the mutually
accepted educational goals. The traditional grading
system is a channel of communication which conveys very
little useful information. Too many value judgments and
hidden unexamined assumptions produce distortions which
reduce the value of what little information can be
transmitted through the channel. Better techniques of
grading without dialogue will not have the power to
resolve this conflict-of-interest problem. Declarations
of competence and mutual evaluation will be aspects of any
better way.
(c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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