Who am I? I wonder sometimes and then remind myself here, http://caldercenter.org & here, http://cedr.us. Views are usually mine, & are not necessarily reflective of anything.
Dan Goldhaber
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It's time to move on from this outdated understanding of what AI models do. Agentic AI is not just fancy autocomplete. The models can pull data, write code to analyze it, verify claims, create audit trails, etc. It's not error-proof and vigilance is essential, but it's not the ChatGPT of 2024-2025.
How to fix grade inflation in higher education? One option, implemented by Harvard is to have a (20%) cap on the number of As profs can award. This convo explains why that somewhat simple solution isn't so good. Why?
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www.aei.org/podcast/what...
Incredibly interesting read!
The grade cap doesn't take account of the fact that classes differ from one another in terms of difficulty, so an given grade in one doesn't necessarily mean the same as the same grade in another. Grade caps create some perverse incentives. Fortunately, ...
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Scott Kominers (Harvard prof/co-author on grade paper) describes a more complex but better alternative: Eigengrades! OK, I get it eigengrades sound complex, but conceptually it's pretty simple idea to grasp. You'll have to listen; interestingly, David v. Goliath features in the explanation!
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I wrote about the quiet erosion of the five day school week. Take Wake County Public Schools, for example, where students will experience only two uninterrupted five-day instructional weeks in Sept, Nov, Dec, and Mar next year. I worry we haven't fully considered the costs of this policy choice.
"These changes have produced policy regime decay and little consistency or direction for state and local policymakers in K-12 education." #EdResearch #EdPolicy
edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1492
