Percent grade scale amplifies racial or ethnic inequities in introductory physics
In previous work we analyzed databases for 95 classes to show that the percent grade scale was correlated with a much higher student fail rate than the 4.0 grade scale. This paper builds on this work and investigates equity gaps occurring under both scales. By employing a “course deficit model” we a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2022-07-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Physics Education Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.020103 |