Associate Vice President of School Partnerships at VHS Learning / Independent Education Consultant
Students have higher grades and lower test scores post pandemic. In 2019-20 65.4% of first year college students took a remedial math course and 42.1% did so in reading/writing. In 2015-16 only 14% of first years took a remedial math class and 8.8% in reading/writing. “Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding,” said a professor who regularly used to assign 30 pages of reading per class. Grade inflation in high schools is a real thing. Some school systems have moved to “50 percent rule” grading systems, which prohibit teachers from giving zeroes for missing work. In Florida, a bill to eliminate a requirement that students pass?an Algebra I end-of-course and 10th grade English/language arts exams in order to graduate recently cleared the Senate’s education committee. #postpandemic #collegeprep https://lnkd.in/dBfxdX55
Dean of Academic Advising and Undergraduate Studies, School of Engineering at Tufts University | College Counselor
9 个月Such an important topic to draw attention to. We, on college campuses, are seeing that students are arriving less prepared. And, high school grade inflation and test optional policies make it hard for admissions officers to adequately understand students’ preparation and readiness for college level work. For example, I have a student who earned an A+ in AP physics in high school earn a single digit exam score on the first physics midterm exam her first semester at Tufts.