Grade inflation
Subtitle: academic standards in higher education
By: edited by Lester H. Hunt.
Contributors: Hunt, Lester H., 1946-
Publisher: State University of New York Press; State Univ of New York Pr
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780791474976; 9780791474983
Subjects: Grading and marking (Students) -- United States; Education, Higher -- Standards -- United States
Description: "This book provides a provocative look at the issues and controversies surrounding grade inflation, and, more generally, grading practices in American higher education. The contributors confront the issues from a number of different disciplines and varying points of view. Topics explored include empirical evidence for and against the claim that there is a general upward trend in grading, whether grade inflation (if it exists) is a problem, which ethical considerations are relevant to grading, and whether heavy reliance on anonymous student evaluations of teaching excellence has a distorting effect on grading practices. Finally, the contributions offer contrasting perspectives on the prospects for reform."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dangerous myth of grade inflation / Alfie Kohn; title: Undergraduate grades: a more complex story than "inflation" / Clifford Adelman; title: Understanding grade inflation / Richard Kamber; title: Grade inflation and grade variation: what's all the fuss about? / Harry Brighouse; title: From here to equality: grading policies for egalitarians / Francis K. Schrag; title: Grade "inflation" and the professionalism of the professoriate / Mary Biggs; title: Fissures in the foundation: why grade conflation could happen / Mary Biggs; title: Grading teachers: academic standards and student evaluations / Lester H. Hunt; title: Combating grade inflation: obstacles and opportunities / Richard Kamber; title: Grade distortion, bureaucracy, and obfuscation at the University of Alabama / David T. Beito and Charles W. Nuckolls; title: Afterword: focusing on the big picture / Lester H. Hunt.