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Grade Inflation : Academic Standards in Higher Education

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Overview

An authoritative and provocative discussion of the key issues surrounding grade inflation and its possible effects on academic excellence.

This book provides a provocative look at the issues and controversies surrounding grade inflation, and, more generally, grading practices in American higher education. The contributors confront the issues from a number of different disciplines and varying points of view. Topics explored include empirical evidence for and against the claim that there is a general upward trend in grading, whether grade inflation (if it exists) is a problem, which ethical considerations are relevant to grading, and whether heavy reliance on anonymous student evaluations of teaching excellence has a distorting effect on grading practices. Finally, the contributors offer contrasting perspectives on the prospects for reform.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780791474983
  • ISBN-10: 0791474984
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publish Date: July 2009
  • Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
  • Page Count: 250

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