Test scores continue declines post pandemic
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Well, duh. You screw the kids over for two years and the expect them to learn at grade level? They're drowning once they came back to the classroom, so we throw them an anvil.
Education is like building a high rise...Gut the support beams of one or two floors and it becomes very difficult to build past the bad part.
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But.. But.. Donald Trump’s Surgeon General was just posting yesterday about how the COVID students were going to surpass the “Greatest Generation!”
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Most of today's school kids don't even know how to program a VCR.
So, in some ways they're a lot like the greatest generation.
I was only joking
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Seems the opposite is happening here…..or, at least, it is in Ontario:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-university-admission-rising-grades-1.6875357
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Ax's post points to a national exam (8,700 students) that appears to be a standardized exam.
Ontario's results are increasing grades. Not the same thing, is it? If everyone is getting a 96, one has to question the validity of the tests/grading process.
Much of that rise occurred in the spring of 2020, when Ontario's Ministry of Education issued a directive that each student's mark in each course must not fall below where it stood when the pandemic forced the cancellation of in-person classes.
IOW, it was guaranteed that the students grades would not be any lower.
Inflation:
Dwayne Benjamin, the University of Toronto's vice provost of strategic enrolment management, says grade inflation also creates challenges for incoming students.
"They may have an exaggerated sense of their own preparedness," said Benjamin.
"Grades are information. Grade inflation distorts the information and degrades the quality of the information," he said. "To the extent that the grades don't mean the same thing one year to the next, it makes it difficult for everybody."
Remember the good old days when a "Gentleman's 'C'" was perfectly acceptable? Now, all the men are strong, all the women are good looking and all the children are above average.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Most of today's school kids don't even know how to program a VCR.
So, in some ways they're a lot like the greatest generation.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Test scores continue declines post pandemic:
Most of today's school kids don't even know how to program a VCR.
So, in some ways they're a lot like the greatest generation.
SNORT
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Ax's post points to a national exam (8,700 students) that appears to be a standardized exam.
Ontario's results are increasing grades. Not the same thing, is it? If everyone is getting a 96, one has to question the validity of the tests/grading process.
Much of that rise occurred in the spring of 2020, when Ontario's Ministry of Education issued a directive that each student's mark in each course must not fall below where it stood when the pandemic forced the cancellation of in-person classes.
IOW, it was guaranteed that the students grades would not be any lower.
Inflation:
Dwayne Benjamin, the University of Toronto's vice provost of strategic enrolment management, says grade inflation also creates challenges for incoming students.
"They may have an exaggerated sense of their own preparedness," said Benjamin.
"Grades are information. Grade inflation distorts the information and degrades the quality of the information," he said. "To the extent that the grades don't mean the same thing one year to the next, it makes it difficult for everybody."
Remember the good old days when a "Gentleman's 'C'" was perfectly acceptable? Now, all the men are strong, all the women are good looking and all the children are above average.
@George-K said in Test scores continue declines post pandemic:
Ax's post points to a national exam (8,700 students) that appears to be a standardized exam.
Ontario's results are increasing grades. Not the same thing, is it? If everyone is getting a 96, one has to question the validity of the tests/grading process.
Much of that rise occurred in the spring of 2020, when Ontario's Ministry of Education issued a directive that each student's mark in each course must not fall below where it stood when the pandemic forced the cancellation of in-person classes.
IOW, it was guaranteed that the students grades would not be any lower.
Inflation:
Dwayne Benjamin, the University of Toronto's vice provost of strategic enrolment management, says grade inflation also creates challenges for incoming students.
"They may have an exaggerated sense of their own preparedness," said Benjamin.
"Grades are information. Grade inflation distorts the information and degrades the quality of the information," he said. "To the extent that the grades don't mean the same thing one year to the next, it makes it difficult for everybody."
Remember the good old days when a "Gentleman's 'C'" was perfectly acceptable? Now, all the men are strong, all the women are good looking and all the children are above average.
I went to school back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, but several of the guys I took classes with went to med school. They were some hellatiously smart people. One of them graduated with a 4.0 GPA. he was the fourth person in 80 years to do so. Nowadays, they graduate one almost every year with a perfect GPA.
I don't think the kids are that much smarter.
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Ax's post points to a national exam (8,700 students) that appears to be a standardized exam.
Ontario's results are increasing grades. Not the same thing, is it? If everyone is getting a 96, one has to question the validity of the tests/grading process.
Much of that rise occurred in the spring of 2020, when Ontario's Ministry of Education issued a directive that each student's mark in each course must not fall below where it stood when the pandemic forced the cancellation of in-person classes.
IOW, it was guaranteed that the students grades would not be any lower.
Inflation:
Dwayne Benjamin, the University of Toronto's vice provost of strategic enrolment management, says grade inflation also creates challenges for incoming students.
"They may have an exaggerated sense of their own preparedness," said Benjamin.
"Grades are information. Grade inflation distorts the information and degrades the quality of the information," he said. "To the extent that the grades don't mean the same thing one year to the next, it makes it difficult for everybody."
Remember the good old days when a "Gentleman's 'C'" was perfectly acceptable? Now, all the men are strong, all the women are good looking and all the children are above average.
Don’t know. National standardized exams don’t exist here. Education is strictly a provincial jurisdiction. Feds have no input or jurisdiction whatsoever. Provide no funding either.
There are standardized provincial achievement exams for high school graduation in some provinces of which I believe Ontario is one.
