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Andrei Ternikov; Mikhail Blyakher – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper focuses on the factors related to faculty workload in the context of resource scarcity to examine whether there is a relationship between them and grade inflation. Design/methodology/approach: As for methodological novelty, the authors created an indicator of students' expectations about grades that is related to grade…
Descriptors: Grading, Grade Inflation, Faculty Workload, College Faculty
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Barriga, Alvaro Q.; Cooper, Eric K.; Gawelek, Mary Ann; Butela, Kristin; Johnson, Elizabeth – College Teaching, 2008
This investigation documents an intervention that successfully counteracted a grade inflation trend at a small, Catholic, liberal arts university in the eastern United States. The intervention produced a significant drop in grades awarded by full-time faculty, but not by adjunct faculty who were not yet included in the intervention. Institutional…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grade Inflation, Liberal Arts, Investigations