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Grade inflation : academic standards in higher education / edited by Lester H. Hunt.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grading and marking (Students)--United States.
- Grading and marking (Students).
- Education, Higher--Standards--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An authoritative and provocative discussion of the key issues surrounding grade inflation and its possible effects on academic excellence.
- Contents:
- The dangerous myth of grade inflation / Alfie Kohn
- Undergraduate grades: a more complex story than "inflation" / Clifford Adelman
- Understanding grade inflation / Richard Kamber
- Grade inflation and grade variation: what's all the fuss about? / Harry Brighouse
- From here to equality: grading policies for egalitarians / Francis K. Schrag
- Grade "inflation" and the professionalism of the professoriate / Mary Biggs
- Fissures in the foundation: why grade conflation could happen / Mary Biggs
- Grading teachers: academic standards and student evaluations / Lester H. Hunt
- Combating grade inflation: obstacles and opportunities / Richard Kamber
- Grade distortion, bureaucracy, and obfuscation at the University of Alabama / David T. Beito and Charles W. Nuckolls
- Afterword: focusing on the big picture / Lester H. Hunt.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791478004
- 0791478009
- 9781435663763
- 1435663764
- OCLC:
- 246177103
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