Grade inflation exists for 20 years. It in higher education is a much-talked-about problem, both for students and for higher education in genera. Including the top university like Harvard, the phenomenon of grade inflation has become more rampant. This paper will cover the situation for the current colleges and universities, course of grade inflation and the solution. Grade Inflation Is Lowering the Value of a College Education
Grade inflation in universities and colleges has been a hot button issue several years. Recently grade inflation has become more significant as some prominent institutions have attempted to deal with their escalating GPAs. The average grade in some courses has gone up significantly. It lead to the result that the average …show more content…
I think the most important reason is professor want to use higher grades to obtain better student evaluations of teaching. In an increased effort at instructor responsibility, many colleges and universities allowed student to evaluate their teacher at the end of the semester. These evaluations play an increasingly important role in tenure and promotion decisions. For example, Ann would do an evaluation my English course instructors and the result will influence her instructor’s grade for her PhD processing. And the good evaluation can also help her to enter the high level course. Thus, the evaluation is very important for her. And she always tries to ingratiate Ann, including the good score. Like Ann’s English course instructor, many teachers may attempt to 'buy ' better student evaluations of their teaching by giving higher grades. While this trade is very appealing, most of the students will failed to find their exact grades.
Grade distributions could become more negatively skewed because the course has been "dumbed down" and the courses are easier and therefore more students are getting A 's and B 's. A number of factors can lead to this. One of the most common is that faculty who are ineffective at teaching, are poor communicators, are unable to explain the material or who have difficulty writing good test items find that large numbers of students are failing their exams. Professor then have to choose …show more content…
However, it looks hard for a short period. Minnesota State University took some good idea for solution. Using of a more finely tuned grading scale and using of the overall class grade in the transcript look will be useful, but implement it should be more compliant. Eastern Kentucky University also advised some solution, such as identify faculty who grade on a curve and send them for remediation. Take steps to assure that grades reflect mastery of course content, then establish appropriate performance and mastery standards for courses and assure that tests assess mastery should be the most useful method to solve the problem in short time. If every instructor would accept this measure of personal responsibility to refuse to inflate grades, then the grade-inflation problem would ultimately solve
Grade inflation in universities and colleges has been a hot button issue several years. Recently grade inflation has become more significant as some prominent institutions have attempted to deal with their escalating GPAs. The average grade in some courses has gone up significantly. It lead to the result that the average …show more content…
I think the most important reason is professor want to use higher grades to obtain better student evaluations of teaching. In an increased effort at instructor responsibility, many colleges and universities allowed student to evaluate their teacher at the end of the semester. These evaluations play an increasingly important role in tenure and promotion decisions. For example, Ann would do an evaluation my English course instructors and the result will influence her instructor’s grade for her PhD processing. And the good evaluation can also help her to enter the high level course. Thus, the evaluation is very important for her. And she always tries to ingratiate Ann, including the good score. Like Ann’s English course instructor, many teachers may attempt to 'buy ' better student evaluations of their teaching by giving higher grades. While this trade is very appealing, most of the students will failed to find their exact grades.
Grade distributions could become more negatively skewed because the course has been "dumbed down" and the courses are easier and therefore more students are getting A 's and B 's. A number of factors can lead to this. One of the most common is that faculty who are ineffective at teaching, are poor communicators, are unable to explain the material or who have difficulty writing good test items find that large numbers of students are failing their exams. Professor then have to choose …show more content…
However, it looks hard for a short period. Minnesota State University took some good idea for solution. Using of a more finely tuned grading scale and using of the overall class grade in the transcript look will be useful, but implement it should be more compliant. Eastern Kentucky University also advised some solution, such as identify faculty who grade on a curve and send them for remediation. Take steps to assure that grades reflect mastery of course content, then establish appropriate performance and mastery standards for courses and assure that tests assess mastery should be the most useful method to solve the problem in short time. If every instructor would accept this measure of personal responsibility to refuse to inflate grades, then the grade-inflation problem would ultimately solve