• gmtom
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    1 month ago

    The whole idea of the American education system of teachers grading their own students and essentially being able to just arbitrarily decide passes or fails is completely wild.

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        1 month ago

        I assume he means it should be based on a rubric or some other marking scheme rather than something more subjective that can be arbitrarily shifted to meet quotas.

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        In the UK at least, students take a standardised exam, then the papers are collected and taken to other part of the country and teachers mark them blindly