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GPA should be a result of mastering the material. Assuming that is roughly the case, if you ever go on to use any of the skills you were supposed to learn in s
by nverno 5y ago
GPA should be a result of mastering the material. Assuming that is roughly the case, if you ever go on to use any of the skills you were supposed to learn in school (math, computing, etc) you are asking if having learned those skills would help you perform those skills?
I doubt there will ever be a way to satisfactorily control for other variables when it comes to these sorts of real-life studies (there is a reason the majority of social science isn't reproducible[1])
[1] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/21/eabd1705 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/21/eabd1705
- staticassertion 5y agoSo the answer is no.
- nverno 5y agoI would lean more towards this is one of those truths that can be taken as self-evident. But, at the same time I would be skeptical that any published evidence would account for the infinitude of confounding factors. My guess is it is similar to IQ results - does a good job weeding out people who know nothing, but does worse differentiating between students who are satisfactory and those who are exceptional
- staticassertion 5y agoAFAIK there's more evidence supporting that ~B students are the most successful vs A students.
- Talanes 5y ago>GPA should be a result of mastering the material. I know that personally my grades don't tend to correlate with my actual knowledge at all. I've failed things because I've been bored with them, and I've gotten perfect grades on things I don't understand at all outside the tested material.
- nverno 5y agoSame, I think this is the assumption that doesn't always hold up. However, it often does, and how well it does depends on the teachers and school.