Grade Inflation

Author : Valen E. Johnson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780387215921

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Grade Inflation by Valen E. Johnson Pdf

Grade inflation runs rampant at most colleges and universities, but faculty and administrators are seemingly unwilling to face the problem. This book explains why, exposing many of the misconceptions surrounding college grading. Based on historical research and the results of a yearlong, on-line course evaluation experiment conducted at Duke University during the 1998-1999 academic year, the effects of student grading on various educational processes, and their subsequent impact on student and faculty behavior, is examined. Principal conclusions of this investigation are that instructors' grading practices have a significant influence on end-of-course teaching evaluations, and that student expectations of grading practices play an important role in the courses that students decide to take. The latter effect has a serious impact on course enrollments in the natural sciences and mathematics, while the combination of both mean that faculty have an incentive to award high grades, and students have an incentive to choose courses with faculty who do. Grade inflation is the natural consequence of this incentive system. Material contained in this book is essential reading for anyone involved in efforts to reform our postsecondary educational system, or for those who simply wish to survive and prosper in it. Valen Johnson is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan. Prior to accepting an appointment in Ann Arbor, he was a Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University, where data for this book was collected. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Author : Lester H. Hunt
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791478004

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Grade Inflation by Lester H. Hunt Pdf

An authoritative and provocative discussion of the key issues surrounding grade inflation and its possible effects on academic excellence.

Author : Lester H. Hunt
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791474984

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Grade Inflation by Lester H. Hunt Pdf

An authoritative and provocative discussion of the key issues surrounding grade inflation and its possible effects on academic excellence.

Author : Mantz Yorke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134161461

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Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education by Mantz Yorke Pdf

This book appraises the way in which summative assessment in higher education is approached, and shows that the foundations of current practices (in the UK and elsewhere) are of questionable robustness.

Author : Bernice Pescosolido,Ronald Aminzade
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761986138

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The Social Worlds of Higher Education by Bernice Pescosolido,Ronald Aminzade Pdf

This is the first comprehensive guide to teaching in the social sciences ever published. "'Two complete works in one" provides a survey of the larger institutional context and alternative perspectives on current debates in higher education, as well as a comprehensive and practical guide to teaching. Contains original essays by leading teachers and scholars including Craig Calhoun, Teresa Sullivan, Dean Dorn, Paul Baker, Charles Tilly, Howard Aldrich, Daniel Chambliss, and Mary Romero. The accompanying Fieldguide for Teaching includes an additional 80 articles, excerpts, teaching tips, exercises, checklists, and overheads covering a complete spectrum of teaching concerns.

Author : Leonardo Franco
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031637834

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Computational Science – ICCS 2024 by Leonardo Franco Pdf

Author : Mary Jane Smith,Roger D. Carpenter,Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826120311

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Encyclopedia of Nursing Education by Mary Jane Smith,Roger D. Carpenter,Joyce J. Fitzpatrick Pdf

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Author : Sarah Eby-Ebersole
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0865546487

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Signed, Sealed, and Delivered by Sarah Eby-Ebersole Pdf

Details and more details, charts, graphs, and statistics that document the many programs, innovations, budgetary and policy decisions made during the Zell Miller years in Georgia. A researcher's delight.

Author : Peggy Connolly,David R. Keller,Martin G. Leever,Becky Cox White
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405170987

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Ethics In Action by Peggy Connolly,David R. Keller,Martin G. Leever,Becky Cox White Pdf

Through the analysis of forty ethical dilemmas drawn from real-life situations, Ethics in Action guides the reader through a process of moral deliberation that leads to the resolution of a variety of moral dilemmas. Fosters critical thinking by evaluating the reasons people give to support their choices and actions Challenges the paradigm of moral relativism that often impedes efforts to resolve moral dilemmas Incorporates international perspectives often lacking in texts published for a U.S. audience

Author : Dave Nagel
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483386409

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Effective Grading Practices for Secondary Teachers by Dave Nagel Pdf

Enact innovative grading systems that more accurately describe student progress! This book challenges traditional grading practices and provides alternatives that can have direct impact on student success. By making subtle shifts toward standards based grading systems, schools can reduce unnecessary course failures, provide students and their families a more accurate picture of current progress, and increase opportunities for success. The author offers a range of grading reform strategies that are built from practical frameworks that are effective and simple to adapt. Among the many strengths of this book are: Practical application of existing research and evidence base for effective secondary grading reforms A framework for schools and districts to apply and adapt failure prevention strategies such as early failure detection, Amnesty Days, and meaningful stipulated second chance opportunities for students to reach mastery Functional strategies and actions for shifting toward standards-based (referenced) grading without entirely abandoning letter grades Countering resistance to change through a-clearly-articulated plan for conducting school-wide and classroom level action research around the effectiveness of new or adjusted grading practices "Informative and pragmatic, this book is spot on with analysis of this elephant in the room issue. Nagel uses both empathy and humor in getting to the heart of a process to generate real solutions while underscoring the ultimate need for teacher voice in any successful implementation. He provides ready-made strategies for real, impactful change. I′m left hopeful that feedback will rule the day!" —Bruce Potter, Superintendent Berkshire UFSD "Nagel offers an insightful and articulate voice to secondary improvement and alignment through grading practices. His tried and true methods through working with real districts provides a starting place and examples for others to follow. A must-read for anyone serious about ensuring student engagement through meaningful feedback." —Debra K. Howe, Superintendent Tri-Creek School Corporation ?

Author : Jackson Toby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351479882

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The Lowering of Higher Education in America by Jackson Toby Pdf

Few in the United States will dispute the assumption that every high school graduate should be entitled to go to college regardless of financial need. But should everyone be able to go regardless of academic preparedness? Jackson Toby explores the idea that federal financial aid programs, all of which peg student aid to need alone and not to academic performance, are dragging down college admissions and academic standards to the point where America's schools, students, and economy will no longer be globally competitive. After a half-century of teaching, distinguished educator Jackson Toby concludes that our current system all too often gives both high school and college students the impression that college is an entitlement and not a challenge. The Lowering of Higher Education: Why Student Loans Should Be Based on Credit Worthiness is Toby's unflinching look at this broken system and the ways it can be fixed. This volume documents just how far college admission standards have fallen and measures the cost of remedial programs designed to get underprepared high school students to the level they should have been at in the first place. Toby is both pointed and frank in his discussion on the issue of grade inflation, which rewards laziness while demoralizing hard-working students. To reverse the national decline of academic standards in American colleges, Toby proposes a radical solution: Let federal student aid be tied to academic performance as well as financial need, incentivizing students to develop serious attitudes and study habits in high school and keep them up in college.

Author : Jefferson Frank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317594154

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The Responsible Economy by Jefferson Frank Pdf

After the ‘financial crisis’ and ‘Great Recession’, some have called for replacing standard economic theory by heterodox models based upon behavioural approaches. The Responsible Economy argues that there is nothing wrong with economic theory. Instead, the problem has been a ‘devil’s pact’ of simplistic pro-market economics combined with simplistic Keynesian monetary policy. This book revisits the fundamental theorems in economics that state the conditions for markets to achieve efficiency. It has long been known that there are limitations of markets in dealing with externalities, increasing returns to scale and monopoly. The role of information in the economy was developed in economic theory in the 1970s onwards and in a world of imperfect and asymmetric information, markets perform poorly. Managers of firms engage in short-termism, take on excessive risk and misstate their own and their firm’s performance. While finance theory makes clear that much of the activity in the financial services sector is of no economic value and represents wasteful ‘financial engineering’. In this real world, it is economically inefficient for firms to maximise shareholder value. On the macroeconomics side, monetary expansion cannot be an effective substitute for addressing real problems of infrastructure and education investment. This book maintains that markets work best if individuals and firms behave ethically and responsibly. Employment should be a long-term relationship; firms should pay living wages, produce good products at a fair price, and pay their share of taxes. Where these standards don’t hold, governments should not try to micromanage through regulation, but set up simple and straightforward policies.

Author : Therese Huston
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780674054028

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Teaching What You Don’t Know by Therese Huston Pdf

Your graduate work was on bacterial evolution, but now you’re lecturing to 200 freshmen on primate social life. In this practical and funny book, an experienced teaching consultant offers many creative strategies for dealing with typical problems. Original, useful, and hopeful, this book reminds you that teaching what you don’t know, to students whom you may not understand, is not just a job. It’s an adventure.

Author : Sarah Elaine Eaton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1924 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031399893

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Handbook of Academic Integrity by Sarah Elaine Eaton Pdf

The book brings together diverse views from around the world and provides a comprehensive overview of academic integrity and how to create the ethical academy. At the same time, the Handbook does not shy away from some of the vigorous debates in the field such as the causes of academic integrity breaches. There has been an explosion of interest in academic integrity in the last 20-30 years. New technologies that have made it easier than ever for students to ‘cut and paste’, coupled with global media scandals of high profile researchers behaving badly, have resulted in the perception that plagiarism is ‘on the rise’. This, in combination with the massification and commercialisation of higher education, has resulted in a burgeoning interest in the importance of academic integrity, how to safeguard it and how to address breaches appropriately. What may have seemed like a relatively easy topic to address – students copying sources without attribution – has in fact, turned out to be a complex, interdisciplinary field of research requiring contributions from linguists, psychologists, social scientists, anthropologists, teaching and learning specialists, mathematicians, accountants, medical doctors, lawyers and philosophers, to name just a few. Because of this broad interest and input, this handbook serves as the single authoritative reference work which brings together the vast, growing, interdisciplinary and at times contradictory body of literature. For both established researchers/practitioners and those new to the field, this Handbook provides a one-stop-shop as well as a launching pad for new explorations and discussions.

Author : Jay Parkes,Dawn Zimmaro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315283838

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The College Classroom Assessment Compendium by Jay Parkes,Dawn Zimmaro Pdf

The College Classroom Assessment Compendium provides new and seasoned instructors with comprehensive strategies, perspectives, and solutions for the daily challenges and issues involved in student assessment. Composed of cross-referenced, research-based entries organized for effective and immediate access, this book provides systematic explanations of assessment policies and practices, including guidelines for classroom implementation. Situated beyond the techniques covered in most instructor training and preparation, these practical entries draw from a variety of disciplines and offer an invaluable reference for college instructors interested in developing coherent, reliable classroom assessment climates.