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Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Woebegone About Grade Inflation (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Grade inflation continues to occupy the attention of the media, the academy and the public at large. |
 | | 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. |
 | | 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. |
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