Most grades don’t match test scores: Is that a problem?
More than 40 percent of middle and high school grades are too high, compared to standardized test scores, and 16 percent are too low, concludes a new study conducted in 2022 and 2023 by the The Equitable Grading Project
“Two out of five transcript grades indicated that students were more competent in the course than they actually were, while nearly one out of six grades was lower than the student’s true understanding of the course content, reports Hechinger’s Jill Barshay.
