The Secret Algorithm That's Keeping Students Out of College

  • >grades from past grads at their school to predict what they would have scored had the pandemic not prevented in-person tests

    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.

    I’m an IB grad and 5/6 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.