Reply to SWW - when do notices go out about interviews?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "SWW - when do notices go out about interviews?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The lowest GPA to get an interview was 3.7.  That is 4 points.  Assume that person had perfect teacher recs, which would be 30 points.  That suggests that the cut-off for interviews was 34/35 points.

Assume that a kid had a 4.0 and would get 5 points.  Also assume that kid had slightly imperfect teacher recs, receiving 28 of 30 points.  That kid would have 33/35 points and not receive an interview.

So, Walls' subjective evaluation of the teacher recs as having a score of 14 each (instead of 15 points each) would be enough to sink a candidate who earned a significantly higher GPA.

How does that make sense?[/quote]

Wow.  So basically it was a lottery based on who your teachers were and how they chose to complete the rec.

I'm sure there were teachers who:

-gave all A students a 15
-gave all A students a 14 (because it's human nature for some reviewers to never pick the highest possible rating on any scale)
-spread A students out between 13 and 15, based on subtleties of their performance.

[/quote]

Also, the lack of kids with IEPs and 504s at Walls has been criticized for YEARS. Guess what bias you further reinforce for those "harder to teach" kids when you give outsize weight to teacher recs?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics