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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by nverno on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:28PM (#27565081)
GPA should be a result of mastering the material. Assuming that is roughly the case, if you ever go on to use any of the skills you were supposed to learn in school (math, computing, etc) you are asking if having learned those skills would help you perform those skills?

I doubt there will ever be a way to satisfactorily control for other variables when it comes to these sorts of real-life studies (there is a reason the majority of social science isn't reproducible[1])

[1] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/21/eabd1705

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by Talanes on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:44PM (#27565202)
>GPA should be a result of mastering the material.

I know that personally my grades don't tend to correlate with my actual knowledge at all. I've failed things because I've been bored with them, and I've gotten perfect grades on things I don't understand at all outside the tested material.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by nverno on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:47PM (#27565222)
Same, I think this is the assumption that doesn't always hold up. However, it often does, and how well it does depends on the teachers and school.
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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by staticassertion on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:42PM (#27565185)
So the answer is no.
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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by nverno on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:46PM (#27565211)
I would lean more towards this is one of those truths that can be taken as self-evident. But, at the same time I would be skeptical that any published evidence would account for the infinitude of confounding factors.

My guess is it is similar to IQ results - does a good job weeding out people who know nothing, but does worse differentiating between students who are satisfactory and those who are exceptional

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by staticassertion on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:50PM (#27565244)
AFAIK there's more evidence supporting that ~B students are the most successful vs A students.
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