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There is such a thing as grade inflation. When a graduate leaves a college with a 3.5 GPA, and you interview that student, and you soon determine that the kid can’t read, write, articulate or think very well, then I’d argue that that school has grade inflation. It is not grade inflation if objective standards for earning an A exist, and the students are achieving or exceeding those standards regardless of the percentage of students who do so. You should not socialize this thing to the point that student accomplishment is short-changed...
...average GPA of the students selected was 3.95, which...
While honors is currently rewarded according to a GPA cutoff, according to Feldman, the plan to switch it to a University-wide percent quota of 60 percent may encourage instructors to inflate individual grades in hopes of garnering more honors for their students...
Some grading trends have remained unchanged over the past few years. Of the three major College divisions, humanities students trumped their counterparts in the social sciences and natural sciences, posting an average GPA of 13.05 on the old 15-point grading scale, compared with averages of 12.52 and 12.33, respectively, last year...
Differences in class sizes also make a difference overall. In 2002-2003 academic year, students in small classes—defined as those with between one and 24 students—posted a GPA of 13.37. Medium classes, or those with 25 to 74 students, averaged a 12.88 and large classes, or those with 75 or more students, came in at 12.36. This data is also in keeping with historical trends...