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	Grade inflation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In an attempt to combat this grade inflation and reverse this reputation, Princeton began in the fall of 2004 to employ strict guidelines which determined the grade distributions for the different courses.
		In the United States, it is commonly asserted that grade inflation is more pronounced in the humanities than in the mathematical sciences, leading students to misestimate the areas of study for which they are most talented.
		Professor Hans Oberdiek of Swarthmore College explained during an introductory course in philosophy in 2003 that grade inflation began in earnest during the draft during the Vietnam War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grade_inflation (1461 words)

	EPAA Vol. 7 No. 30 Mc Spirit & Jones: Grade Inflation
		Yet grade inflation might go beyond finger pointing and front accusations, and might reflect a complex social mix where faculty -through grades-might be trying to foster positive feeling toward learning and where faculty, might be awarding higher marks to confer the necessary credentials and future prospects of employment and job security on outgoing students.
		In short, in identifying grade inflation at prospective institutions, researchers have examined the confounding effect that increases in student aptitude and preparation levels have in explaining grade increase.
		In examining grade inflation, this study examines trends in graduating GPA from 1983 to 1996.
	epaa.asu.edu /epaa/v7n30.html (4994 words)

	National Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities
		The author believes that the resurgence of grade inflation in the 1980s principally was caused by the emergence of a consumer-based culture in higher education.
		An oft-cited reason for grade inflation in the 1960's was the kindness of faculty members toward students trying to avoid the military draft during the Vietnam War.
		This suggests that the general trend shown in the second figure - grade inflation waning in the mid-1970s to mid-1980s - applies to the preponderance of schools for which data are available.
	www.gradeinflation.com (1873 words)

	The Chronicle: 11/8/2002: The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation
		It is largely accepted on faith that grade inflation -- an upward shift in students' grade-point averages without a similar rise in achievement -- exists, and that it is a bad thing.
		Mainstream media outlets and college administrators have allowed themselves to be put on the defensive by accusations about grade inflation, as can be witnessed when deans at Harvard plead nolo contendere and dutifully tighten their grading policies.
		Precisely because that is true, a reconsideration of grade inflation leads us to explore alternatives to our (often unreflective) use of grades.
	chronicle.com /free/v49/i11/11b00701.htm (3057 words)

	Inside Higher Ed :: Woebegone About Grade Inflation
		Grade inflation continues to occupy the attention of the media, the academy and the public at large.
		The self-enhancing tendency helps explain why professors believe that grade inflation exists but their grades do not contribute to it, why student pressure and student evaluations influence others’ grading but not their own, and why grades in their classes should be higher but grades at the university level (and other universities) should be lower.
		Yet, the professors made a clear distinction between the grading practices in the university and in their own department: grade inflation is seen as a problem that occurs mostly in other departments and units.
	www.insidehighered.com /views/2005/07/27/mccabe (3487 words)

	Fiscal Policy Effects on Grade Inflation
		The purpose of my paper is to suggest that grade inflation does exist and that another of its causes is fiscal and budgetary policy, specifically, the use by many states of enrollment based funding formulas as a means of allocating funds for higher education.
		Grade inflation occurs when a student receives a grade for course work unwarranted by the level of work or achievement demonstrated (Stone, 1995).
		The suggested causes of grade inflation range widely, It has been around since the Academy, in the late 1940's, began to admit students different from the social groups that elite colleges and state universities saw as their clientele before World War 11 (Korshin).
	www.newfoundations.com /Policy/Barndt.html (3155 words)

	Palinurus> Readings> Featured Controversy> Grade Inflation
		Grade Inflation and the Corporatization of the Academy
		Deans devote their time to monitoring the grade inflation; committees form to battle the phenomenon; departments and professors are policed to make sure that they do not catch the disease of spreading too many A's.
		Perhaps the bluntest political use of the Grade Inflation charge was made lately in the City University of New York, where the Board of Trustees drove the Chancellor out of office.
	complit.rutgers.edu /palinurus (2371 words)

	Grade Inflation ... Why It's a Nightmare*
		Grade inflation (and its primary/secondary equivalent, social promotion) has made grades and advancement difficult to rely on as a measure of academic success.
		It was during their last visit that I realized that there is a connection between grade inflation, accrediting agencies and the drive for standardized curricula and quantitative learning assessment.
		Sure, individual teachers can explain "what grades mean" semester after semester, but when minimally acceptable work is worth a C, or a B or an A, depending on the course, it is hard for students to keep track.
	hnn.us /articles/6591.html (3496 words)

	CURBING GRADE INFLATION
		Grade inflation can be controlled by establishing certain procedures, such as a standard grading scale.
		Clearly, there is grade inflation in high schools, and students entering college expect to continue getting high marks.
		Grade inflation, like inflation in the economy, can be controlled.
	ctl.stanford.edu /Tomprof/postings/444.html (774 words)

	Grade Inflation: The Current Fraud
		In general, the highest academic grade inflation is in the lowest achieving schools.
		One of the greatest frauds perpetrated on high school students is grade inflation.
		It is our position that every high school examine its grade point averages to uncover grade inflation.
	schoolmatch.com /articles/ESRJAN97.htm (357 words)

	Belligerati: Grade Inflation
		Grade inflation in a frustrating topic for a few reasons.
		Professors can't control grade inflation because any one professor has an incentive to inflate grades to attract pleasant students with positive course evaluations.
		When Cornell tried to combat grade inflation by shaming teachers by publishing average grades, it failed.
	www.belligerati.net /archives/2005/06/grade_inflation.html (199 words)

	PEDABLOGUE - Grade Inflation
		These statistics were shocking enough to raise everyone's concerns about grade inflation and we have since been conducting surveys, hosting conversations in the faculty senate and in division meetings, and generally addressing the issue by dialoguing about common standards of evaluation for student performance.
		While our culture would seem to reject such a grading system, the authors of the article suggest that possibly because of grade inflation and the waning trust in grades as indicators of student talent, employers and grad schools are less and less using the transcript as the sole measure of a student's potential.
		I'm personally interested in people's thoughts on grade inflation (where work that used to be worth a C is now given a B) vs. grade compression (since so many students are now getting As and Bs, there are few options to indicate gradation of difference).
	blogs.setonhill.edu /MikeArnzen/000850.html (3548 words)

	USATODAY.com - A call for an end to grade inflation
		Concerns about grade inflation, defined as an upward shift in the grade-point average without a corresponding increase in student achievement, are not new.
		At Harvard University, a recent study found that nearly half of all grades awarded were A or A-minus.
		A tenured professor is suing Temple University, saying he was fired because he wouldn't make his courses easier or give students higher grades.
	www.usatoday.com /news/health/2002-02-05-grade-inflation.htm (318 words)

	The Washington Monthly
		The worst grade inflation is occurring at the primary and secondary level due to peer group advancement, i.e.
		Grade inflation is a bigger problem in the humanities and some social sciences.
		There is considerable grade inflation outside the sciences, and there is a lot of whining from nonscientists who take science courses for breadth requirements.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2005_06/006536.php (7140 words)

	Tall, Dark, and Mysterious » Grade inflation
		Grade inflation is merely the right-hand side of that equation.
		It also found that the average grade in most faculties is a B. SFU, the article mentions, seems to be immune to this trend, but the article doesn’t give much insight as to why that is. Pity.
		However, the difficulty of applying consistent standards from year to year does not explain why, by most accounts, grades measured over long periods of time are increasing rather than decreasing or regressing to the mean.
	talldarkandmysterious.ca /archives/2005/01/17/grade-inflation (2764 words)

	Critical Mass - Blowing up grade inflation
		Grade inflation could be wiped out at a single stroke by reporting all grades on the curve.
		My point wasn't that grade inflation doesn't happen (or even that it doesnt' happen at Harvard et al.,) but rather, that it would make more sense to cite statistics from schools that are more representative of the general college population in support of the point.
		Opponents of grade inflation tend to assume that if we can just all agree that grade inflation exists, then we'll all be able to concede that it is bad, and then we can just all stop inflating grades.
	www.erinoconnor.org /archives/2003/03/blowing_up_grad.html (4456 words)

	Grade Inflation: Myth or Reality
		But the issue of grade inflation is not simply a matter of students earning higher grades.
		A converted grade point average of 105 for the entering class of 1995 would have resulted in an average grade of 3.12 rather than the 2.71.
		Clearly, both the "quality" of the students and grades they earned increased, but because the SAT Total test score and the grade point average are based on different scales it is difficult to compare them directly.
	www.utexas.edu /student/research/reports/Inflation/Inflation.html (463 words)

	Carnegie Perspectives: Grade Inflation: It's Not Just an Issue for the Ivy League
		And last week, students and professors at the University of Oregon debated whether grade inflation exists on that campus in an article for the student newspaper, The Daily Emerald.
		Eighty percent of the grades at the University of Illinois are A's and B's, and 50 percent of Columbia students are on the Dean's List.
		Last year 50 percent of the grades at Harvard were either A or A-, up from 22 percent in 1966, and 91 percent of seniors graduated with honors.
	www.carnegiefoundation.org /perspectives/perspectives2004.June.htm (1191 words)

	ArgMax Economics Weblog: Grade Inflation
		my dissertation is focusing on grade inflation under the economiucs of higher education but i have a supervisor for my dissertation who wants me to focus on financial theory which i do not want to do.
		Don't Worry About Grade Inflation - Why it doesn't matter that professors give out so many A's.
		The analysis is a bit flawed in that it assumes that students can be ranked along a single dimension of "natural ability" ranging from "good" to "bad" across all classes over 4 years (with some random variation).
	www.argmax.com /mt_blog/archive/000067.php (285 words)

	NPR : Harvard Grade Inflation
		According to a report issued Tuesday by the dean of undergraduate education, nearly half of the grades issued last year were A's or A-minuses.
		All Things Considered, November 21, 2001 · Student's grades at Harvard University have soared in the last 10 years.
		In 1985, just a third of the grades were A or A-minus.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1133702 (147 words)

	Grade Inflation
		The Task Force was charged with reviewing the research literature on issues related to grade inflation, investigating whether grade inflation was an issue for the Faculty of Education at the UofL, and making appropriate recommendations.
		The Grading Task Force consisted of Dr. Robert Runté (Chair); Dr. Margaret Winzer (Literature Review), Dr. Nola Aitken, Dr. Robin Bright and Dr. Erika Hasebe-Ludt, and was active from 2002-2005.
		This site was initiated by the Grading Task Force of the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge.
	people.uleth.ca /~runte/inflation (175 words)

	The Chronicle: 4/6/2001: Grade Inflation: It's Time to Face the Facts
		Grade inflation compresses all grades at the top, making it difficult to discriminate the best from the very good, the very good from the good, the good from the mediocre.
		I said that when grade inflation got started, in the late 60's and early 70's, white professors, imbibing the spirit of affirmative action, stopped giving low or average grades to black students and, to justify or conceal it, stopped giving those grades to white students as well.
		Grade inflation has resulted from the emphasis in American education on the notion of self-esteem.
	chronicle.com /free/v47/i30/30b02401.htm (1799 words)

	National Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities
		The author believes that the resurgence of grade inflation in the 1980s principally was caused by the emergence of a consumer-based culture in higher education.
		An oft-cited reason for grade inflation in the 1960's was the kindness of faculty members toward students trying to avoid the military draft during the Vietnam War.
		The chart below examines the magnitude of the rate of grade inflation from the mid-1980s to present for the institutions for which I have sufficient data on contemporary trends.
	www.gradeinflation.com (1873 words)

	Demand pull inflation
		The Christian Science Monitor: Grade Inflation Is Not A Victimless Crime Explains that students need an accurate synopsis of their performance.
		Grade Inflation: The Current Fraud Study by M. Thomas and William Bainbridge finds prevalent inflation in poor performing schools.
		MSN: Don't Worry About Grade Inflation Article by Jordan Ellenberg argues that trends in work can be examined over several years.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Demand_pull_inflation_.html (360 words)

	Critical Mass - Part II of the Amazing
		The degeneration theory of grade inflation is more nostalgic than diagnostic; it is not invested in identifying causes or proposing solutions so much as it is in hearkening back to the good old days when men were men and the gentleman's C was a badge of honorable mediocrity.
		The Degeneration Theory: This school of thought sees grade inflation as a sign of a much broader and deeper cultural degeneration, one that includes the decay of morals, the erosion of family values, the displacement of meritocracy by affirmative action and political preferment, the death of taste, and an overall decline in standards.
		Virginia Postrel explains in compelling detail how the massive grade inflation and tuition hikes that characterized the 1980s and 90s were created by an increased demand for education in a market with static supply.
	www.erinoconnor.org /archives/2002/06/part_ii_of_the.html (985 words)

	Craig DeLancey, Grading Policy
		Grade inflation, fueled perhaps by a consumeristic model of education which encourages us to see a degree as something purchased rather than earned, has greatly eroded the utility of grades.
		In recognition of grade inflation, I take the class mean to be a B- and just 1 percent away from a C+ (this is inflation, since traditionally the mean was supposed to be a C).
		Thus, if the raw class average were a 50%, then a raw grade of 50% would be a B-; 49% would be a C+; and if the standard deviation were 10% and I was using 0.7 as a multiple, then 57% would be an A-, and 43% would be a C-.
	www.oswego.edu /~delancey/grading.html (985 words)

	Grade Inflation: The Current Fraud
		In general, the highest academic grade inflation is in the lowest achieving schools.
		It is our position that every high school examine its grade point averages to uncover grade inflation.
		One of the greatest frauds perpetrated on high school students is grade inflation.
	schoolmatch.com /articles/ESRJAN97.htm (357 words)

	Iowa State Daily Online Edition
		The value of a grade goes down with the occurrence of grade inflation because there is more of that particular grade, Smith said.
		A change of fourteen-hundredths of a grade point in 10 years does not suggest a problem with grade inflation, Holger said.
		During the past 10 years, the average grade point average of an ISU student has been steadily increasing.
	www.iowastatedaily.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/12/03/41affc7a62411 (608 words)

	Grade (education) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is usually done to prevent grade inflation.
		The average of grades given in Danish secondary schools in 2003 was 8.22.
		A grade in education can mean either a teacher's evaluation of a student's work or a student's level of educational progress, usually one grade per year (often denoted by an ordinal number, such as the "3rd Grade" or the "12th Grade").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grade_(education) (4645 words)

	Grade Inflation
		You can't have grade inflation, in the end, unless grades are being used as a form of currency, with lasting real-world value.
		Grade inflation -- real inflation -- means that the same work that got a C in the past is getting, say, a B today.
		But belief in the value of bad grades has become an ideological shibboleth, a marker that defines the rift between past and present values.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/98/04/23/GRADE_INFLATION.html (3841 words)

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