Community Critique VS Official Critique
7:34 AM, Sunday October 4th 2020
Is community critique just as effective as official critique?
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1:52 AM, Monday October 5th 2020
No I could give u a critique and I have no idea what i'm talking about. uncomfortable derived and changed the course from peter hans dynamic sketching and has a firm grasp of the material. An official critique if the advice within is followed basically guarantees u'll be able to understand and execute the material better.
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9:27 AM, Monday October 5th 2020
No, as said, with the additional reason that it is also much slower. It's better than nothing but it's like someone in the year above marking your homework. They, mostly, don't have the experience.
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9:07 PM, Monday October 5th 2020
Being the one selling the official critiques, my opinion on this is irrelevant - but I did want to mention that in the future (not particularly soon, but eventually) we're probably going to look at implementing systems that help improve access to critiques for those who aren't able to pay for getting official feedback. This will primarily be driven by giving students already signed up for official critiques to effectively pay less overall by instead giving feedback to those submitting for free feedback. This will be combined with providing more structured "checklists" for them to use when giving feedback to help give their critiques more structure.
The hope here is that while it will not make those free critiques quite as fast, detailed and reliable as the paid ones, it will improve them on all of those fronts compared to where they are now. We are still however thinking about how this kind of system would be implemented, and it's not something we're rushing into just yet. It does however align with our overall goal of making critiques more and more accessible, creating a sort of structure where depending on what you can pay, you're still able to get some kind of feedback near-guaranteed. We're a ways away from that, though, and currently since most of the official critiques are still done by me right now, the scaling that requires isn't within reach. As I work to get more teaching assistants trained up to handle more of those official critiques under my supervision, though, it'll become more of a possibility.
6:21 AM, Saturday November 7th 2020
Seems like an effective system.
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