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The heart of the loop: Reattempts without penalty

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

But factoring in all the assessments, the statistics done to compute the course grade will even out the noise; and in the end, the central tendency of student grades will be accurate. It leads to "grade inflation" It violates some kind of academic machismo code that views student assessment like competition in an arena.