Plagiarism shows remarkable immaturity and a lack of self-confidence (or an inflated ego: “I am above the rules”). Or just plain laziness. If the IB wants to get stronger through critical analysis of its procedures and programs, then first it needs to grow up in some fairly basic ways.
New IB Data is available, only from Wandering Academic. The IBO doesn’t even calculate these numbers, but they provoke lots of interesting questions. Is it really true that it’s harder to get a 7 in English than in Physics? Have score distributions changed dramatically over time?
A professional economist and close associate of the Wandering Academic (he is Nate Clinton, a director of product management at Thomson Reuters, former analyst at the Federal Reserve) has done a short analysis of the School Rankings numbers. The results? IB diploma scores and SAT composite scores are not well correlated. Read to see his visualization and comments.
Check out the new International School Rankings! See interesting SAT, IB and GPA data from a growing list of schools around the world, including Int’l School of Beijing, Singapore American, Cairo American College, and American School of Paris. Check out the new “Data” tab in the nav bar up top.
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