Header image is one panel of Francis Bacon’s triptych, Three Studies For A Portrait Of Lucien Freud.
Preliminary Evidence
We’ll spend the first part of this week — Monday, mostly — talking about evidence. Grade abatement is an evidentiary process, which means it is also objective and aggregate in nature. In other words, you begin with nothing, and over time you collect the evidence of a particular profile.
You can use the previous post to read more about GAP scoring. You can also spend as much time as you like tracking the history of these systems, including how the evidence-based process developed over the last few years, by visiting Sisyphean High proper. You should already have a baseline understanding gleaned from that site; if you don’t, that means you neglected (or missed) the summer work, which means you are working at a deficit.
For now, you should focus on what you did last week as you read this instructional post and the embedded article by Chad Fowler. Use the comments below to ask me questions about evidence. Let’s see how functional this site can be for Q&A, whether it’s the more substructural questioning demanded by the previous post on grade abatement or specific questions about an assignment, like this one.
We’ll talk about deadlines when they lurch their way into view. Remember, these are fluid requirements of the system; they matter, but the process matters more.