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Download full textDan Goldhaber; Maia Goodman Young – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
There is widespread speculation (e.g., Johnson, 2021; Klinger et al., 2022; Mathews, 2022; Walker, 2021) and some evidence (e.g., Sanchez & Moore, 2022, Sanchez, 2023) that grading standards have changed over the course of the pandemic, making higher grades relatively easier to achieve and less reflective of objective measures of learning. It…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Grade Inflation, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Direct linkEwing, Andrew M. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
Grade inflation over the past few decades has been a concern for many universities. Course evaluation scores are known to be positively correlated with students' expected grades, and this paper tests whether or not there is an incentive for the instructor to "buy" higher evaluation scores by inflating grades. To test this hypothesis, I…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Grade Inflation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Educational Assessment
