Dear all,
I would like to raise an issue about quantitative grading of projects of
design students. I both include the 0-100 system and A-F system by saying
quantitative. These are supposed to be most conventional methods for design
evaluation. But I think they often fail to evaluate the project and define
the 'value' of the project. Especially in the context of design realm which
has many dimensions and qualities, dealing with numbers sometimes make
little sense. So do you think could a qualitative evaluation style be
developed? For example, the students will have feedbacks like "good
concept", "inefficient mechanism", or "potential for innovation". (I just
write what comes to my head for example)
Another disadvantage about quantitative grading, there comes a pedogogical
aspect. Students often associate themselves with numeric values. They
perceive they are 'less' or 'more' than someone else in the studio. But
some project could be 'more' with its e.g. technical details; but another
one with its 'aesthetic qualities'. So how should these different
contexts, values and potentials be quantified and compared?
Maybe there are schools making their evaluation on qualities but I hardly
remember. Do you know such places? And what do you think about all these?
Or do you think we have to reduce a 'design' to a quantity in the end?
Kind Regards,
Dr. Esra Bici Nasır
İstanbul.
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