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Ugh that's terrible. The College I went to the professors seemed to have the attitude of this program is hard and our students need all the help we can give the
by Gibbon1 4y ago
Ugh that's terrible. The College I went to the professors seemed to have the attitude of this program is hard and our students need all the help we can give them. I think half the students dropped out.
Grade inflation always seems weird to me since they stamped it out in my program 40 years ago by enforcing grading on a curve and not allowing students to drop out and retake classes after the first two days. Grading on a curve was real. I once got a B with a score of 13/50.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoI loathe strict curve grading, as it measures relative ability within a cohort with no predictive value of real ability.
- Gibbon1 4y agoA professor can make a test as hard or easy as he wants. So just because you got 100% right means nothing at all in and of itself. And that you got everything right is a really hard tell your test wasn't hard enough. Which also perhaps means the class isn't either. The problem not stated with grade inflation is it's a good indication that the classes are being targeted towards the lower 1/3 of the class. Which means really you're wasting the upper 2/3rds of the classes time.