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Originally Posted by GGG
The public sector isn't immune either. I was working in university recruitment as a student when the U of S introduced Scholarships for all students getting over 90 93 and 95 averages. Each year I worked there the number of local students getting these scholarships went up. It was pretty clear that teachers were giving students bumps in grades to hit these scholarship numbers.
The difference between an 89 and a 91 isn't measurable in a social science so giving that minor bump to good students makes sense on an individual basis.
At least in Alberta the diploma exams allow it to be monitored.
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agreed regarding bumps, but the discrepancy between an 89 and a 91 is much different than what was happening in some private schools...
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Grades of the 19 students at the International School of Excellence in the city's northeast plummeted 38.9 percentage points on the provincial exam, nearly four times the provincial average. While only two of the students managed a 50 per cent score on the exam, everyone ended up passing the course on the strength of an average classroom mark of 78 per cent that included seven A students.
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That is a pretty ridiculous spread between the classroom grade and provincial grade.