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   Grade Inflation: The Effects on Educational Quality and Personal Well Being, in Education » Read Now

   by Clifford H. Edwards. 9 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...GRADE INFLATION: THE EFFECTS ON EDUCATIONAL QUALITY...CLIFFORD H. EDWARDS Reports of grade inflation have been widely circulated. Though...disputed (Bracey, 1994), they...
   
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   Education on Trial: Strategies for the Future ("Grade Inflation-Achievement=Academic Deflation" p. 92) » Read Now

   by William J. Johnston. 356 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library
   
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   Inflating the Grades, in Insight on the News » Read Now

   by Stephen Goode, Timothy W. Maier. 4 pgs.

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   ...Insight. Far from succumbing to grade inflation, Krattenmaker says that Swarthmore...UVA. Leffler first encountered grade inflation when he was chairman of UVA...getting As...
   
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   Grade Inflation. The Case of Urban Colleges and Universities, in College Teaching » Read Now

   by Richard M. Summerville, Dennis R. Ridley, Terry L. Maris. 6 pgs.

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   ...Grade Inflation. The Case of Urban Colleges and Universities...and Terry L. Maris. C oncern with grade inflation often starts from a distressing observation...students are...
   
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   Identifying Grade Inflation at an Open-Admissions Institution, in College Student Journal » Read Now

   by Stephanie McSpirit, Kirk Jones, Ann Chapman, Paula Kopacz. 7 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...IDENTIFYING GRADE INFLATION AT AN OPEN-ADMISSIONS INSTITUTION...Committee to study the problem of grade inflation at Eastern Kentucky University. As members of the Ad Hoc...
   
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   Fighting Grade Inflation a Misguided Effort?, in College Teaching » Read Now

   by David Basinger. 4 pgs.

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   ...Fighting Grade Inflation A Misguided Effort? David Basinger...higher grades are the result of grade inflation. And inflated grades, most of us...But most of us concerned...
   
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   Grading across a Career, in College Teaching » Read Now

   by Donald Walhout. 5 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...we have the familiar issue of grade inflation, that is, a disparity between...either change the practice of grade inflation or change traditional assumptions...way to...
   
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   Higher Education in Transition: The Challenges of the New Millennium ("Grade Inflation" begins on p. 21) » Read Now

   by Joseph Losco, Brian L. Fife. 222 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   This book explores the state of higher education at century's end and the challenges awaiting it in the next millennium. It assesses changes in the student population, the role of faculty, spending patterns, government support, the role of intercollegiate athletics, the nature of presidential...

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   This book explores the state of higher education at century's end and the challenges awaiting it in the next millennium. It assesses changes in the student population, the role of faculty, spending patterns, government support, the role of intercollegiate athletics, the nature of presidential leadership, and the impact of technological change. This volume is a call to educators, parents, and taxpayers alike to enter into a dialogue about the future directions of higher education that they are willing to support.

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   About Those Private School Achievements, in Phi Delta Kappan » Read Now

   by Gerald W. Bracey. 2 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...States, May 1997. More About Grade Inflation Or Lack of It In last months...GPAs) referred to by some as "grade inflation" would actually be at least...SAT is a 600-point...
   
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    Faculty Ironies on Grade Inflation, in Journal of Instructional Psychology » Read Now

    by Stephanie McSpirit, Ann Chapman, Paula Kopacz, Kirk Jones. 5 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

    ...Faculty Ironies on Grade Inflation. by Stephanie McSpirit...comments (n=156) on the topic of grade inflation. Our review of faculty comments...disagreement among the...
    
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    Changes in High School Grading Standards in Mathematics, 1982-1992 (Chap. 2 "Grade Inflation: Anecdotes and Systematic Evidence") » Read Now

    by Daniel Koretz, Mark Berends. 81 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library

    Observers have maintained that grades in secondary and postsecondary institutions have become inflated. This possibility is an especially serious concern to many colleges and universities because such inflation could make it increasingly difficult for them to distinguish among high-achieving...

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    Observers have maintained that grades in secondary and postsecondary institutions have become inflated. This possibility is an especially serious concern to many colleges and universities because such inflation could make it increasingly difficult for them to distinguish among high-achieving students. This study examines this possibility by evaluating changes in high school grading standards across the nation as a whole from 1982 to 1992.

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    Grade Inflation: A Crisis in College Education, in The American Statistician » Read Now

    by Kristin A. Duncan. 2 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    
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    Grade Inflation and the Myth of Student Consumerism, in College Teaching » Read Now

    by Elizabeth Boretz. 5 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library