The Other Academic Dishonesty: Why Grade Inflation is Ethically Wrong
Journal: Canadian Journal of Practical Philosophy
Year: 2023

While there is general agreement among educators that grade inflation is wrong, there are few discussions in the existing literature of the way in which it is wrong or what makes it wrong, and fewer attempts to approach its wrongness through moral philosophy. I argue that grade inflation—understood as an evaluation of a student’s work or performance that reports its quality as higher than it is—counts as ethically wrong on the three most widely accepted normative ethical theories, and that as su