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(Giving some context into this as founder in edtech -- running a 4 yr CS undergraduate program at kalvium.com) One reason for grade inflation is that this is c
by anilgulecha 4y ago
(Giving some context into this as founder in edtech -- running a 4 yr CS undergraduate program at kalvium.com)
One reason for grade inflation is that this is currently the only filter provided to the industry, who would like to filter students they review. This has ended up as a perverse incentive, and students and the university want to be above the "cutoff" GPA.
One of the solutions we're going with is to provide a 5 point grade per course, and provide this full breadth of data as a filter to the industry during the placements/internships season. Our bet is that the industry will have more diverse options to go by and we end up with better match-making.
Another solution is to have publicly verifiable artifacts of coursework (plagiarism is a significant problem in higher education).
I'd also like to hear HN's recommendations on this topic.
- roxgib 4y agoPerhaps I've misunderstood, but is one advantage of a 5 point system that the resulting point are highly and interpreted favourably by review systems that assume a 4.0 maximum? I'm guessing a lot of them don't bother to read the data you provide.
- anilgulecha 4y agoThe big change is a grade per course, with publically available artifacts of project work.