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By Staff Reports
Published: December 29, 2008
National Testing Notes Grading Discrepancies
Editor, Times-Dispatch:
Standardizing the grading scale for the state sounds like a logical idea, but it is laughable. A student's grade may depend in part on the grading scale and individual effort, but it also is influenced largely by the rigorousness of high school and the toughness of the teachers students are assigned within that school.Students know challenging schools have some easy teachers and weaker schools have some hard teachers and many try to game the system when possible. This is why nationally administered tests like the SAT have value in allowing comparisons between students from different high schools.
It is also why valedictorians from some high schools may struggle in college while students ranked near the bottom of the class at other high schools may excel.
Sue Weinstock. Midlothian.
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