The Secret Algorithm That's Keeping Students Out of College

&gt;grades from past grads at their school to predict what they would have scored had the pandemic not prevented in-person tests<p>Wait, this is like reverse affirmative action, no? Students at schools that previously performed badly will have their grades downweighted?

In the future I just have to do really well in kindergarten and all the rest of my school and career will be predicted by a ML model with no correction whatsoever.<p>I’m an IB grad and 5&#x2F;6 exams could have been done electronically. Should at least give students the option to take exams.

The article doesn’t include any commentary related to students that were mis-predicted in the other direction, i.e higher-than-expected scores. If the results stand, they’ll be an interesting case study in the predictive value of IB scores on college performance.

My 13 year old son just started doing classical mechanics on ocw.mit.edu No one can keep students out of open courseware. signaling is a zero sum game, but there is always a shortage of students who have the interest and aptitude to learn.