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Download full textSanchez, Edgar I.; Moore, Raeal – ACT, Inc., 2022
This study employs hierarchal linear modeling to examine whether high school grade inflation occurred between 2010 and 2021, including for students who were tested during the pandemic. The study does so while simultaneously accounting for student and school characteristics. This is the first study, to the current authors' knowledge, that makes use…
Descriptors: Grade Inflation, Institutional Characteristics, Pandemics, COVID-19
Dee, Thomas S.; Dobbie, Will; Jacob, Brian A.; Rockoff, Jonah – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2016
In this paper, we show that the design and decentralized, school-based scoring of New York's high school exit exams--the Regents Examinations--led to the systematic manipulation of test sores just below important proficiency cutoffs. Our estimates suggest that teachers inflate approximately 40 percent of test scores near the proficiency cutoffs.…
Descriptors: High Schools, Exit Examinations, Scores, Grade Inflation
