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My suggestion is using a modified version of sortition. Grade the students, then add some white noise to their final grading. You deliberately make the process
by wisty 15y ago
My suggestion is using a modified version of sortition. Grade the students, then add some white noise to their final grading. You deliberately make the process less precise, hoping that this will discourage students from gaming the system too hard (which will more accurately get the intrinsically motivated ones in).
Even better, if you keep track of the random noise you added, you can do all sorts of interesting statistical experiments. Introduce a few kids who didn't get top scores into an MBA program, and see what factors later predict success.
- Retric 15y agoThere is an interesting trend at top schools where the marginal applicants from less prestigious prep-schools tend to do better. The better your parents help you game the system the lower your average intelligence after admission. My younger sister went though this process recently. She was Valedictorian, had 5's on something like 12 AP tests, ran her own business, and had enough artistic talent that she was accepted into the top Graphics Art School in the country with an average admissions age of ~20. Now, she was considering a business degree and could have easily gotten a full ride at an Ivy, but the students where 'stressed and boring' so she gave up on that idea really quickly. Which is an odd trap, where not only are poeple gaming the system to get in, you drive away the types of students you actually want because your student is so focused on checking things off a some list they never really learn to think for themselves. PS: Continue down this path for long enough and we are going to end up with Japan's higher education system.