Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a less inflated grading system, the rewards that are given out will go on the basis of some kind of favoritism, and I think that is clearly wrong," he says. "Also, if you give someone too high a grade, and he is in the habit of getting too high grades, it's a kind of flattery and it leads to a kind of corruption in the student which...
Mansfield maintains that "the social sciences generally have not been at the rear of the movement toward grade inflation...
...left, which you could hear a lot of a few years ago during the student movement, that competition is a bad thing, and that a 'new society' must be constructed which would be quite utterly lacking in competition," Mansfield says. "And the symbol of competition, of course, is the grade...
Among the causes of grade inflation cited by students and faculty members over the past few years are the increased availability of pass-fail fourth-course options, more lenient course grading policies, and, according to Mansfield, "the increased publicizing and patronizing of easy graders...
Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, says that at Harvard in recent years, instructors have tended to grade students in small courses--tutorials, for example--higher than those in average-sized or larger courses...