My faculty board is being recommended to adopt a quadratic scaling procedure in place of the present linear scaling method. The justification provided is that "the advantages of quadratic scaling over the current linear method, for the same average mark after scaling, are that substantially fewer students will fail".
Whatever happened to old-fashioned academic standards?
David Barron. Professor of computer science. University of Southampton
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