{"id":2098,"date":"2008-10-09T10:52:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T17:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2008-10-09T10:52:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T17:52:51","slug":"information-age-transcripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/10\/09\/information-age-transcripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Age Transcripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not just grades but:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grade distribution for the class.  At a minimum: class average, standard deviation, median.  Even better: a breakdown by grade.<\/li>\n<li>Scores of students in the class on standardized exit exams.  For example I&#8217;d like to see how students who took the class scored on physics GREs.<\/li>\n<li>Surveys of the students perception of the difficulty of the class.  Comparison of this ranking for same students across other classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, when information storage is cheap, why is it that we have a grading standard consisting of a few lousy letters (less for some schools..you know who I&#8217;m talking about!)  Should we shoot for a standardized more information content grading standard?  Or is the current system fine for the purpose it serves (which varies widely among the users of the grades)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not just grades but: Grade distribution for the class. At a minimum: class average, standard deviation, median. Even better: a breakdown by grade. Scores of students in the class on standardized exit exams. For example I&#8217;d like to see how students who took the class scored on physics GREs. Surveys of the students perception of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/10\/09\/information-age-transcripts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Information Age Transcripts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}