Grade inflation is the continuous habit of awarding higher academic grades progressively to work that deserves to be awarded lower grades in a genuine grading process. Grade inflation is not proven by higher grades achieved but, it is important to point out that those high grades are not deserved. Unfortunately, the big disappointment is that grade inflation on students who deserve them has crept in a rapid trend and those students who don’t deserve them now have them.
Body
In several years of research (averaged to seven years), grades continue to rise according to the database on grade inflation and A is the dominating grade achieved at all kinds of colleges in the country (Bastedo 350). Grade inflation has revealed a lot of cons associated with it than pros and some of them include, reducing student’s incentive to excel since their academic transcripts no longer reflect their excellence. In addition to that, comparing students who sat for their examinations at different times becomes more difficult since the grading inflation pattern is not uniform across …show more content…
Despite their positive effort to help out the students, those students who see grade inflation as an advantage to them have highly criticized their work. However, a recent study shows that the efforts were not in vain. In a 2013 research analysis, people argued that the appropriate way to measure grade inflation is by looking at the rate at which people are landing on prestigious jobs and getting paid high salaries (Hunt 60). Somehow, we can say that the value of grades has held firm its grounds, rather not eroded. Nevertheless, the big disappointment is that grade inflation on students who deserve them has crept in a rapid trend and those students who don’t deserve them now have
Body
In several years of research (averaged to seven years), grades continue to rise according to the database on grade inflation and A is the dominating grade achieved at all kinds of colleges in the country (Bastedo 350). Grade inflation has revealed a lot of cons associated with it than pros and some of them include, reducing student’s incentive to excel since their academic transcripts no longer reflect their excellence. In addition to that, comparing students who sat for their examinations at different times becomes more difficult since the grading inflation pattern is not uniform across …show more content…
Despite their positive effort to help out the students, those students who see grade inflation as an advantage to them have highly criticized their work. However, a recent study shows that the efforts were not in vain. In a 2013 research analysis, people argued that the appropriate way to measure grade inflation is by looking at the rate at which people are landing on prestigious jobs and getting paid high salaries (Hunt 60). Somehow, we can say that the value of grades has held firm its grounds, rather not eroded. Nevertheless, the big disappointment is that grade inflation on students who deserve them has crept in a rapid trend and those students who don’t deserve them now have