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Thoughts on grading in schools

Published: May 30, 2021, 2:56 p.m.

Referencing video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe-SZ_FPZew

I think education needs grades and that the grades ideally should be measured on a bell curve.   The grades identify where to cut the tails off of the central cohort.   The tests need to be challenging enough to expose those tails so that they may be trimmed from the cohort.   Our problem is our failure to recognize that the C grade is the ideal grade.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/30/thoughts-on-grading-in-schools/