Proposal for Annotated Bibliography on Grade Inflation. I am researching Grade Inflation at colleges and universities because I want to find out why there is an upward trend in grades achieved at colleges and universities. In order that my readers will understand why there is such an increase in GPA over the decades at these institutions. I personally do not have an opinion on the subject, but I am curious to understand why the stark changes from the past decades. Is this change brought on by free passes? Is it brought on by easier requirements? Is it a change in students' work ethic? Or is it something that doesn’t actually exist? The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to figure out what is really going with students receiving
