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Grades are also fraught with bias, and in a lot of cases measure compliance more than mastery of the material.
by greatzebu 8y ago
Grades are also fraught with bias, and in a lot of cases measure compliance more than mastery of the material.
- jhwang5 8y agoWhat are some examples of this bias?
- sys_64738 8y agoThis. I thought everybody for sure in the USA got A grades for everything. If you were not then you get extra credit to let you get the A Grade. In England, A Levels have gotten to the point where each year more people get an A for a subject than the previous year. This is analogous to the Soviet harvests beating each preceding years. Not they have A* grades or some such derivative to say that it's a "real" A grade.
- johnday 8y agoIt's actually been fairly stable for almost a decade - there's a good graph for the UK on the 'grade inflation' Wikipedia article.
- yhoneycomb 8y ago> everybody for sure in the USA got A grades for everything. If you were not then you get extra credit to let you get the A Grade. that's incredibly inaccurate and naive