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SHORT THREAD: I think saying teachers inflated student grades is way too simplistic and completely ignores massive element of chance in any exams
Many students are capable of getting any given good grade. Whether they do depends on how much they revise, whether they revise the right things, how well they cope with exam stress, whether anything bad happened (eg family problems, housing issues etc)
And then a big dose of luck in the exams - did the right questions come up? Did you manage to avoid a stupid mistake that would have cost you precious minutes correcting? Did you get lucky and get given extra time to finish (happened to me)?
Teachers can't and shouldn't try to predict to which students such events could cause a worse grade. They will (and should) predict them the grade they are eminently capable of.
That's NOT grade inflation. That's teachers not being able to predict a set of hypothetical circumstances all combining to give a grade. No one could. Yes, some students more slam dunk than others - but anyone can have a bad day. Not having exams stopped that natural experiment.
The lesson perhaps should be rethinking using these be all\\end all ways of assessing ability when there is so much luck involved - disadvantaged kids more likely to have harder circumstances for revision etc too.
This is all another reason (of the many) why I think teacher assessed grades fairer than this algorithm. Honour those grades and right the wrongs that have been done students. END
