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Podcast: All of the Above Podcast
Episode: Parents Trust Grades More Than Test Scores… Are They Right?
Description: Today on AOTA Shorts: A new paper from researchers at Oregon State University and the University of Chicago shows evidence that parents place greater credibility in what their children’s grades say about their academic performance than they do test scores. But the researchers raise concerns that this could be inadvertently resulting in parents missing key data about their student’s struggles in school. Citing rampant grade inflation, and frequent mismatches between grades and more rigorous standardized test scores, they advocate parents place more credibility on tests as an indicator or performance. But are the parents right? And in an e...