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Hitting for Average: Educational Assessment, Unidimensionality, and the Connection to Baseball Hitting Statistics
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Alex Romagnoli – Educational Considerations, 2024
The traditional points system and subsequent Grade Point Average (GPA) in education perpetuates an evaluation of academic performance which reflects arbitrary weighting of assignments and/or assessments. As such, GPAs which are calculated using a traditional points system are not unidimensional in their design. The baseball batting and slugging…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Weighted Scores, Team Sports, Grades (Scholastic)