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David B. :SetouchiExplorer:
David B. :SetouchiExplorer:
@David@setouchi.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

I hate letter grading with a passion.

I have no less than 7 students in the same class who final grades are between 79 and 81% And depending on how I adjust (because it's a presentation class where grades can't be 100% objective depending on how hard I try) all of these students can have either a A or a B. I even have two students, who are good friends with a 79.4 and a 79.5 which means one should have a B and the other one a A.

This is all so very stupid. Why can't grades be plain numbers?

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Das
Das
@SRDas@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@David if a decimal - always round up

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David B. :SetouchiExplorer:
David B. :SetouchiExplorer:
@David@setouchi.social  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

@SRDas Definitely not. This is how you end up with grade inflation.

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Das
@SRDas@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 49 minutes ago

@David 😬 😅

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M. Grégoire
M. Grégoire
@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@David In my university, grades were percentages, at least in engineering. Simple, logical, easy to use.

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David B. :SetouchiExplorer:
David B. :SetouchiExplorer:
@David@setouchi.social  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

@mpjgregoire Grades are percentages, but then I need to turn them into letters, which is so stupid.

I blame US influence, very probably.

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