21st Century Engineering by Anirudh Dhebar
April 2025
Effort does not equal excellence
In academia, an unpleasant task as each semester
closes is reading through lots of assignments and
assigning grades. Even more difficult: Facing an unhappy
learner who insists they put in lots of effort and deserve
a higher grade. I was reminded of the fallacy of such
logic in, “No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort” (The New York
Times, Dec. 26, 2024).
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