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[quote=Anonymous]Why do people implicitly assume that merit= GPA + SAT and that anything else is not merit oriented? Letter grades came into being at the end of the 19th century. SAT about 90 years ago. Before that the point of education was not to create a bell curve distribution. Evaluations were a combination of qualitative and quantitative. The shift to GPA and quantitative measures were for the convenience of teachers who began teaching more students per teacher. It wasn’t in service of the students or pedagogy. [/quote]
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