Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fair grading I mean giving a student what he or she actually deserves," Mansfield says. "I don't mean hard grading, or grading someone lower than he deserves...
...Mansfield, who graduated from Harvard summa cum laude, argues that a system "corrupted" by grade inflation will ultimately hurt the student a good deal more than it will help...
...Mansfield maintains that "the social sciences generally have not been at the rear of the movement toward grade inflation...
...apart from this, an ideology which I guess comes from the 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...