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Re: Grade Inflation (Was: Student Evaluations of Teaching)



Advanced placement courses in Calif. allow for grades > 4.0 (High Schools)

bc

Another example if the increasing disparity in our 'new communist free"
world. Education is even less free and available -- to the advantage of the
kleptocrats.

Jon Bell wrote:

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:

On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 18:53:23 -0500 Jerome Epstein
<jerepst@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> writes:

If a gpa of 3.67 reflects the same kind of work as a gpa of 2.67 25
years ago, we are badly misleading the students -- and ourselves.
I think it is a scandal.

Yes... But.... Does a dollar today purchase the same amount of groceries
tat it did 25 years ago?

The problem with that comparision is that there's no "top" on the dollar
scale, whereas there *is* a "top" on the grade scale: 100% or 4.0 or
whatever. Hmmm... what if we were allowed to "inflate" the top end so
that the max would now be somewhere between 120% and 150% (or somewhere
between 5.0 and 6.0?)? Just imagine what grade inflation might look like
then!

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Jon Bell <jtbell@presby.edu> Presbyterian College
Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA