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As I understand from the article, Virginia schools started awarding students an automatic GPA increase for doing well on a standardized test, and a researcher o
by jcl 17y ago
As I understand from the article, Virginia schools started awarding students an automatic GPA increase for doing well on a standardized test, and a researcher observed that the average high-school GPAs of college-bound Virginian students went up relative to the rest of the country.
Am I missing something here? How is this conclusion surprising?
(Or are they saying that the fact that Virginia is awarding the increases at all is surprising?)
- xenophanes 17y agoarticle says > changes that school districts quietly made to encourage student participation, often involving grade-based incentives so this is cheating but by local districts not statewide. they are making their kids look better to colleges, when equally skillful, intelligent, and hard working to kids from other places.