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There’s a fundamental asymmetry here. Fail a student unfairly, and the harm to them is potentially irreparable. Pass more than usual, and you increase competiti
by asplake 6y ago
There’s a fundamental asymmetry here. Fail a student unfairly, and the harm to them is potentially irreparable. Pass more than usual, and you increase competition for places and while there’s certainly some unfairness there, the system will ultimately compensate through interviewing, delayed starts, etc.
- rbecker 6y ago> the system will ultimately compensate through interviewing, delayed starts, etc. A roundabout way of saying that some students that would have been accepted to their chosen college, won't be, because their grades weren't as inflated as their competitions. Isn't that also potentially irreparable harm, not just "some unfairness"?
- asplake 6y agoThere’s a massive difference between not getting your preferred place and being denied the opportunity even to apply
- rbecker 6y agoSo you would consider using the algorithmicaly adjusted grades an improvement, if in case of a failing grade, the teacher's estimate was used instead? And a follow-up question: How many such cases were there? Where the adjusted estimate failed a student, but the teacher's estimate didn't?