The Lake Wobegon Effect – All Our High School Graduates are "Above Average".

“Students expect, from their high school experience, to be told exactly what is required to receive a particular grade. They expect to be given ‘study guides’ before exams that lead them by the hand through the material that is likely to appear on the exam. And they expect tests and courses to be graded by ‘rubrics’ that assign a fixed number of points for the completion of each item assigned. Woe to the poor professor who sets exam questions that might require a smidgen of original thought or insight on the part of the student. He or she is likely to hear about that in spades when it’s time to fill out those teaching evaluation forms.” Mark H. Shapiro —The Lake Wobegon Effect – All Our High School Graduates are “Above Average”. Irascible Professor)