{"id":2672,"date":"2010-08-19T19:59:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2010-08-19T19:59:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:59:16","slug":"english-grades-vs-ects-a-should-be-called-a-and-a-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/english-grades-vs-ects-a-should-be-called-a-and-a-b\/","title":{"rendered":"English grades vs. ECTS: A* should be called A, and A B"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/comedynose\/4906846651\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4082\/4906846651_662af1029c_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/comedynose\/4906846651\/\">Project 365 #231: 190810 The Proof Of The Pudding<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/comedynose\/\">comedy_nose<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/education\/education-news\/new-a-grade-for-1-in-12-alevels-2056609.html\">A level results for England are here<\/a>, and about 8% got an A*, while a plain A was awarded to 27% of pupils.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell, this means that when mapping English grades to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ECTS_grading_scale\">ECTS grading scale<\/a>, A should be mapped to B, and A* to A.  The mapping is not perfect, given that the ECTS system stipulates that 10% should get an A, and 25% a B, but it&#8217;s definitely very close.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why the education authorities in the UK don&#8217;t try to get rid of <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/27\/1474\/\">grade inflation<\/a> by adopting a statistical system such as ECTS.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, they&#8217;ll need to introduce a new grade such as A** in a few years&#8217; time, then A***, and so on ad nauseam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 #231: 190810 The Proof Of The Pudding Originally uploaded by comedy_nose The A level results for England are here, and about 8% got an A*, while a plain A was awarded to 27% of pupils. As far as I can tell, this means that when mapping English grades to the ECTS grading scale, A should be mapped to B, and A* to A. The mapping is not perfect, given that the ECTS system stipulates that 10% should get an A, and 25% a B, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}