[Englecturers] FW: Spring Semester Registration

[Kate Watt]

How precisely would a website outside the university get our grade
distribution data?  Beyond the anecdotal reports of a few scattered
students.  Can they buy or steal such reports for whole classes or whole
campuses?  If so, that's pretty creepy!

And, by the way, if a commercial website has such statistics, why don't we?
Do we have access to an analysis of our grade spreads, relative to other
teachers (as they do at some community colleges)?  Should the self-policing
Sandy mentioned have to be the result of a creepy website's input?

Kate



On Jan 14, 2008 9:53 PM, <sbaringer at hughes.net> wrote:

>  Pickaprof has actual quantitative data about grade distributions, which
> is making more people nervous.  You have to subscribe for $10 a year to get
> access to the grade histories.  I'm guessing that in the long run, the
> publication of the grade data is more likely to result in grade deflation
> than inflation, as the worst inflating offenders (many of them
> tenured) become exposed to peers and administrators outside the direct chain
> of command.
>
>
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