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If course completion rate becomes the metric that brings in money, it will quickly soar to 100% or maybe above. See: Goodhart's Law.
by nine_k 2y ago
If course completion rate becomes the metric that brings in money, it will quickly soar to 100% or maybe above. See: Goodhart's Law.
- CamperBob2 2y agoWell, that's kind of the whole idea behind college, isn't it...
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoIt becomes meaningless when the professors are pressured to pass failing students to make the numbers look good.
- Akronymus 2y agoLike what happens with lower schools under the "no child left behind" doctrine?
- harvey9 2y agoI was thinking of students who dropped out. It's a different fraud if the institution is claiming re-enrollments that never happened.