No, changing to pass vs fail would just result in everyone getting a pass.
The solution is rank grading. That is how it works in the real world after the little darlings leave the mommy environment of education and have to work. They have to compete not on some defined performance measure, but against their peers.
No, changing to pass vs fail would just result in everyone getting a pass.
The solution is rank grading. That is how it works in the real world after the little darlings leave the mommy environment of education and have to work. They have to compete not on some defined performance measure, but against their peers.
Working in a unionized steel mill when I was 18, I was surrounded by older coworkers that threatened me to slow my work so the bosses did not start expecting more from them. That is the collectivism sickness. There is a saying in Russia that the workers pretend to work and the bosses pretend to pay them.
But in our democratic capitalist society the spoils go to those with demonstrated productive skills in competition with everyone else's demonstrated productive skills.
Just like in athletics, the goal of the coach is to advance both individual and team demonstrated productive skills. The same should be for academics. Students should compete with each other for ranking, but that competition should include their performance working with other students to the benefit of the team (classroom). And the teacher will be required to rank all the students from one to the bottom number of students in the classroom.
That force-ranking requirement will fix grade inflation.
No, changing to pass vs fail would just result in everyone getting a pass.
The solution is rank grading. That is how it works in the real world after the little darlings leave the mommy environment of education and have to work. They have to compete not on some defined performance measure, but against their peers.
Working in a unionized steel mill when I was 18, I was surrounded by older coworkers that threatened me to slow my work so the bosses did not start expecting more from them. That is the collectivism sickness. There is a saying in Russia that the workers pretend to work and the bosses pretend to pay them.
But in our democratic capitalist society the spoils go to those with demonstrated productive skills in competition with everyone else's demonstrated productive skills.
Just like in athletics, the goal of the coach is to advance both individual and team demonstrated productive skills. The same should be for academics. Students should compete with each other for ranking, but that competition should include their performance working with other students to the benefit of the team (classroom). And the teacher will be required to rank all the students from one to the bottom number of students in the classroom.
That force-ranking requirement will fix grade inflation.