Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite the ongoing dialogue on grade inflation, many are convinced that the trend is grader is, if anything, in the other direction...
Students in many Harvard science courses are often shocked to find that their grades are much lower than "large-scale grade inflation" would have indicated. Chemistry 20a's first semester median grade was a C+. In Natural Sciences 3, the lowest-level chemistry course at Harvard, students were promised "a substantial percentage of grades above B+," What many failed to anticipate was the equally substantial percentage of grades below...
...Jonathan Williams '78, who plans to concentrate in Psychology, puts it, "I don't think we have any grade inflation at all. If anything, we have deflation--I haven't seen anything close...
...fact, Yale recorded a reversal of sorts in its grade inflation this fall--only 36 per cent of grades were "A"s, down 4.5 per cent from last spring's all-time high of 40.5 per cent...
Nonetheless, the corrective action against grade inflation suggested by Rosovsky in November may soon be forthcoming...