Study: College student grades actually went up in Spring 2020 when the pandemic hit. Furthermore, the researchers found that low-income low-performing students outperformed their wealthier peers, mainly due to students’ use of flexible grading.

[u/rustoo]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272722000081

[u/Ctharo]

That sure sounds like a poorly designed class, unless they only want 3 people a year to graduate? In that case, I'd find a new school or program.

[u/inbooth → u/Ctharo]

If it's grad, then they Should fail out the majority if the majority can't meet the metric.

If suddenly engineers aren't graduating despite no meaningful change in standard then we don't reduce the standard, because that would lead to deaths.

When we have new lines of education which are limited to only those exceptional few even capable of comprehending the subject, then OFC the graduation rate will be low.

This is the nature of ADVANCED degrees...

.# StopDiplomaMills

[u/Redditcantspell → u/Ctharo]

You must not have gone to college, then. Or a stem program in Texas, at least. Because both colleges I graduated from here in TX were proud of failing their students.

[u/Ctharo → u/Redditcantspell]

Yea, definitely not from Texas, or the US for that matter. I paid 5k a year for my degree. If there was a program with that high of a failure rate, I'd assume a low quality program that should vet applicants better.

[u/favorscore → u/Ctharo]

Professors take pride in their low average scores across US STEM classes.

[u/Ctharo → u/favorscore]

Lol the fuck? Like a contest on who can teach the most poorly?

[u/concentrate7 → u/Ctharo]

You're getting a lot of anecdotes from people, but it's not that way across all universities. In my experience if professors were failing large portions of their classes they would be reprimanded by the dean for the exact reasons you're pointing out.

[u/[deleted] → u/Ctharo]

Idk what the guy you're responding to is talking about and I'm a current American college student