have a look at the following summary:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/education/ferpa.html
part of this amendment was to make sure parents had access to the records of their children ...
other language in the act speaks to what information IS included and what is not ... and, it also speaks to what is considered to be confidential
of course, all this is grounded in the withholding of federal $$$ if institutions do not apply ...
i don't see anything specifically in this document about what CAN be displayed publicly in terms of students' academic records from a course ... or now specifically this can or cannot be displayed
DOES ANYONE OUT THERE HAVE ANY SPECIFIC CASES/DOCUMENTS/RULINGS/LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE OPINIONS ... that lay out what can and cannot be displayed (like scores on tests or grades in course) and what is within the law and outside of the law? certain schools may have adopted THEIR version of what they think is the "law" but, that does not mean that is correct
we have given many of our opinions but, what IS the law and ... what are specific citations for it?
there is no such thing as absolute grading ... it is always relative to something ... relative to what the instructor thinks cuts the mustard ... relative to other students in the class ... relative to how other students have done in the past ... relative to certain cut points the instructor has set ...I do not see things this way; grading should try to be absolute. As far as "relative to others", this should not be others in the class, but others in the field.
there is no other way ...
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