Credentials
"The paper's slightly psychic. Shows them whatever I want them to see. Saves a lot of time." - The Doctor
Sophistication and Rigor Levels
S and R levels are a threshold structure I invented to rank the relative difficulties of academic courses relative to similar curriculum. Sophistication levels S refer to the vertical scale of the content itself, which is reasonably well-defined for subjects requiring pre-requisite knowledge
and skills. This loosely corresponds to two-year intervals within the universities.
Rigor levels R refer to the fact that the very same subject can be treated with different degrees of relative difficulty. Implicitly this means higher levels of R reflect superior proven mastery of the material. This is ranking how hard the evaluations are for the course level.
S = 5: Specialist
S = 4: Graduate
S = 3: Upper Undergraduate
S = 2: Lower Undergraduate
S = 1: General / Popular
Rigor Levels: (Test Difficulty, Relative To Content)
R = 5: Extremely Difficult
R = 4: Very, Very Hard
R = 3: "Ivy League Hard"
R = 2: Moderately Difficult
R = 1: "Easy Class"
Roughly: (1) "too easy", (2) "respectable", (3) "solid", (4) "hard", and (5) "way too hard".
