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Anon takes an exam (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] ugo@feddit.it 11 points 2 days ago

I guess this makes sense in a university context and with aggregated data.

As an example of how you do not want to do grading based on an average, I once had a high school professor rescale my 85%-ish percent on a test to 65%-ish, because most people did well in that test so the professor decided he had made the test too easy and scaled grades down.

That was only one of the reasons I hated that guy’s guts.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, that's unfair.

I'm okay with scaling grades up because that implies either the test or instruction was bad, and the curve accounts for that. Going the other way unfairly punishes things like misreading questions.

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