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The biggest lesson I have learned was that if you fail people, you should make sure that those who fail correctly reflects the demographics (e.g. black people,
by catzaa 17y ago
The biggest lesson I have learned was that if you fail people, you should make sure that those who fail correctly reflects the demographics (e.g. black people, women). Otherwise it is a fuck-up with some very nasty complaints.
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- araneae 17y agoAnd the problem is that at the university I teach at, being an ethnic minority is worth 20 pts of the 100 pts necessary for admission; the same number of points as a full grade point average. That means that the black students did a full grade point worse in high school, on average, than the white students they're competing with. I fudge this by grading my black students easier than my white students on essays/exams. (based on the assumption that they score the same in other areas. That assumption is obviously not true, but the other areas where they might differ have such small point values it's close enough.)
- gaius 17y agoWait, so you compensate for group X getting in more easily by giving them an easier ride too? Is that not backwards? I think whoever you work for ought to invest in some sort of double-blind marking system...
- araneae 17y agoWhy would they want a double-blind marking system? It looks bad if you admit a bunch of black students and then fail a large number of them.