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As STEM evolves, so does South Carolina’s Coalition for Mathematics & Science

STEMx

Peters describes South Carolina’s Coalition for Mathematics & Science. The coalition, created in 1993, under a different name, initially worked to support science and mathematics education in the state. That’s how Thomas T. SCCMS is unique in its current iteration in that we are not directly affiliated with any government agency.

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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.