Where All Grades Are Above Average
Stuart Rojstaczer,
Washington Post,
Jan 30, 2003
I have long maintained that there is an element of conflict of interest involved when the people that provide the learning are also the people who evaluate the learning. The consequences of this are evident in this article as the author describes the impact of grade inflation over the decades. I cannot vouch for his data (but there's no reasn to doubt it), but the causality is clear. "It's almost impossible for a professor to grade honestly. If I sprinkle my classroom with the C's some students deserve, my class will suffer from declining enrollments in future years. In the marketplace mentality of higher education, low enrollments are taken as a sign of poor-quality instruction."
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