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[quote=Anonymous]"a properly designed test assigns grades between 50% and 100%"

Says who?

I have a master's degree in education.  At no point when I was learning about writing assessments did I hear of any such concept.

"50% is failing, 58% is failing, there are no deeper levels of failing, there's no additional information gleaned from a grade bellow 50%"

Only if you are looking at it from a pass/fail perspective.  But if you are concerned with what your child has actually learned, there's plenty of additional information to be gleaned.  A child that has earned a 50% on an assessment has mastered twice as much of the course material as a child who has earned a 25% on the same assessment.

"this still gives scores bellow 50% more oomf than scores over 50%"

Right, which it should.  A student who earns a 50% on a test should have a higher grade in the course than a student who earned a 25% on that same test, if their other grades are otherwise equal.

How could it be fair otherwise?

"As far as what happens in college. Curves, curves happen in college."

Except for when they don't.  I took plenty of classes in college that were not curved.[/quote]

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