The problem was not using an algorithm, it was that they used a crap algorithm that could award students grades that were higher than those even available on the paper that they sat, and made it impossible to get a high grade if no-one fromm your college got one before.
I'd love to see the details of the algorithm itself. Surely it can't have been too difficult to put some guard rails in there to prevent it moving any grade more than say, two places (maybe even one) from the predicted grade.
Instead it seemed to have the freedom to do whatever it liked. Moving Bs to fails. Students predicted to fail getting As.
That's just incompetence on the part of whoever made that algorithm.
I'd love to see the details of the algorithm itself. Surely it can't have been too difficult to put some guard rails in there to prevent it moving any grade more than say, two places (maybe even one) from the predicted grade.
Instead it seemed to have the freedom to do whatever it liked. Moving Bs to fails. Students predicted to fail getting As.
That's just incompetence on the part of whoever made that algorithm.