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Originally Posted by cinderly
OK, well here's an update -- I spoke to the Head of Independent Study at LSU.
There is no standard method of grading nor is there any requirement for instructors to offer feedback to students. I am unusual in my experience that college-level instructors will give students useful feedback and it is, essentially, unreasonable to expect that trend to bear out in LSU Independent Study courses.
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Bear in mind that most universities would NOT have a standard method of grading. There are two many differences across disciplines and even within a department/discipine, the tenets of academic freedom gives instuctors great flexibility.
To a lesser extent this is also true for feedback on assignement.
The grade is the feedback. I can tell you that at many institutions, a dean wouldn't necessarily be able to tell a tenured instructor how much additional feedback to provide. The Independent Study Department? Not a chance. Their only available option is to not assign students to an instructor in the future.