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Grading is not "stack ranking". when I give out a grade to a student, I don't care how the other students did. You're in the very small minority. Virtually eve
by jimbob45 3y ago
Grading is not "stack ranking". when I give out a grade to a student, I don't care how the other students did.
You're in the very small minority. Virtually every professor I had in college employed scale adjustments to grades based on class averages.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoI think its very common to grade on a curb, mostly because most professors don't have a natural high water mark defined (like what does "A" work mean independent of your peers?). And if they did have an idea, they probably have taught the class many times to get that idea. Especially for smaller upper division classes that are not taught at scale, this is probably not very feasible.
- itronitron 3y agoAnd yet GPA is used to rank applicants in pretty much every academic admissions process.