Pandy · 5 answers · 3y

What are your thoughts on having teachers providing grades at school based on predicted performance (no moderation) when it comes to qualifications?

Not sure what you mean re qualifications, but I think it's illogical to give grades based on predicted performance. The whole point of issuing another grade is to see how well the student is doing at that time--to see how well they learned the new material, or at least to see how much they've improved or worsened. If you're just going to go by past performance, then just go by past performance explicitly, what's the point of using a made-up middle-man by predicting?

It is a practical measure in the face of postponed tests due to corona lock downs, but it carries an element of injustice in it and probably of bias and gambling. On the other hand we live perfectly with predicted values of worth and wealth when investing our retirement funds and our national debt and income, due to stock exchange gambling. And that process is full with bias, ignorance, fraud, gambling and injustice. So a little bit less double standards would be good.

Sounds sus AF but I know next to nothing about how teachers work and grade and stuff

In my experience, I am able to correctly guess the letter grades of 95% of my students before their final exam. And because of those 5% that either exceed or don’t meet expectations, I don’t think predictive grading is morally right.

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