Posted on 03/20/2023 11:40:30 AM PDT by grundle
They might not want to hear it, but it’s true: Students assigned to teachers with tougher grading policies are better off in the long run, research suggests.
According to a paper released last fall through Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform, eighth- and ninth-graders who learned from math teachers with relatively higher performance standards earned better test scores in Algebra I. The same students later saw their improved results carry forward to subsequent years of math instruction, and — contradicting fears that high expectations might cause kids to resist or give up — they were less likely to be absent from classes than similar students assigned to more lax graders.
Seth Gershenson, an economist at American University and one of the paper’s co-authors, said the breadth and longevity of the positive results showed that they were not flowing from a quirk of testing. Rather, high standards “change the way students engage with school,” he argued.
“There really is a persistent, long-lasting sea change that students experience when they have a tougher grader,” Gershenson said. “And it’s not like you have to be super tough; any marginal increase in standards adds a little boost.”
The study is built on grading and testing records for a huge swath of North Carolina students who took Algebra I in either the eighth or ninth grades. In all, the sample included over 365,000 pupils across nearly 27,000 classrooms and 4,415 teachers — a rich enough selection to allow comparisons between thousands of similar students assigned to different Algebra teachers over a 10-year span.
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Standards are racis; a stiple of whyte supremasy. If I want to spel like a retrd, ah shuld bee abel tooo dooo dat.
How would you know?
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote “Anti-Education”. Great book so far. The guy was a genius and his genius drove him crazy. It’s like socialist Jack London turning his back on socialism in his final year and Orwell believing the stuff but hating them.
All 3 came to see the light in a different way but not enough.
Veteran urban public school teacher here. In the old days administrators would usually support a teacher who has a tough grading policy. The policy just had to be made clear to the students from the very start. Fair enough.
This is no longer true. Today’s administrators are uniformly woke career-climbers. Learning (and discipline) take a back seat to public relations. Schools have to look good. That means pass everyone. And the more A’s the better.
Woe to the teacher who has high standards. That teacher WILL be called in for an attitude adjustment. Stubborn teachers will be targeted. The reason won’t be for having high standards, of course. Some other reason will be given.
Public education is quickly becoming a lost cause, in the cities anyway.
Why do researchers spend time and money on researching the obvious?
Sherlock Holmes is impressed by this sleuthing.
In 1977, my grad school economics professor was essentially fired for “failing too many students.”
He did not, of course, fail ANY student! The “failed” students were not willing to do the word necessary to pass.
I worked my butt off to get an A in AP History and I was so proud of myself. My teacher was known for giving a lot of B grades but very few A’s. That’s how to boost self-esteem.
I took a business law course in college. The end grades looked like a reverse bell curve. About 1/2 the class failed and the rest did very well. He warned us about that on day one. He was a real hardass, but 40 years later, I remember his course and what I learned.
Duuuuuuuuuuuh!
bkmk
Roger that!
The teachers we admire, love and respect are the ones who challenged us!
Yes. I had a history teacher in High School. He was an Air Force Colonel in the reserves. He made a lot of the girls cry. He was also my scout leader. Tough man but well respected.
Well I knew that in 1st grade.....and that was a LONG time ago.
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