grade inflation sets students up for failure

Interesting Canadian article on Grade inflation. I'm in the USA but we have the same problem https://macleans.ca/education/student-hub/getting-in/the-surge-of-a-students/ "**If more and more students are getting top grades, it's reasonable to expect the knowledge and study habits that propelled them there would carry over into their university years. Instead, every fall, lecture halls are filling up with underprepared first-years. A University of California San Diego report from last November showed that one in 12 UCSD first-years didn't meet middle-school math standards. When the value of a grade erodes, there are real consequences. Students land at university with an inflated sense of their own ability. They might not seek academic assistance early enough, or at all. And they might find themselves completely disoriented by a dramatic drop in grades-which can give way to impostor syndrome. That's what happened to Mashiyat Ahmed. At her Mississauga high school, she had a 95 per cent average and won the award for the highest grade in English. But when she entered her first year at U of T, her grades plunged into the 60s. "I was terrified. I didn't know how to see myself anymore," she says. Darja Barr has been teaching mathematics at the University of Manitoba since 2007. Even then, she said, students would enter her first-year calculus course feeling quite confident—then they’d fail their first test. Recently, she says the problem has grown. She’s noticed a gaping disconnect between how students are evaluated in high school and what’s expected of them in university. To make matters worse, she points out, university class sizes are larger than ever before, meaning everyone receives less individual support."** submitted by /u/Embarrassed_Syrup476 [link] [comments]