Sentences with phrase «grades than your credit score»

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In an article for Education Next, Pieter De Vlieger, Brian A. Jacob, and Kevin Stange of the University of Michigan report that students taught by skilled postsecondary instructors receive higher grades and test scores, are more likely to succeed in subsequent courses, earn more credits, and are better positioned to complete a college degree, with larger effects for in - person than online classes.

For example, the consortium found that students» course performance and credits earned in ninth grade are more predictive of their likelihood of graduating high school than their race, gender, socioeconomic status, and standardized test scores combined.

Only in Pearson's virtual world is a «badge» — conferred to a person who watched an online video alone, and completed an online quiz with no proctor, which was no doubt scored automatically via computer — somehow considered more «trustworthy» than a credit earned by a student actually participating in a real - world classroom, with other students and an instructor, engaged in regular discussion, with assignments, graded by the same teacher who taught the course.

Credit scores have mutated into an overall trustworthiness grade that are used for a lot of purposes other than getting good interest rates.

There are also other companies that offer private student loans without cosigners, such as alternative underwriting criteria that allow you to qualify for a loan if you have good grades and are planning to go into certain fields rather than just based on your credit score.