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Title: Grade Inflation : Academic Standards in Higher Education
Description: 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.
Authors: Lester H. Hunt
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Subjects: Education, Higher--Standards--United States, Grading and marking (Students)--United States
Categories: EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, EDUCATION / Leadership, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
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