Word: pilbeam
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During recent deliberations over honors recommendations for graduating students in the Department of Anthropology, outgoing Dean of Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam says he and his colleagues discovered that students' grades did not reflect their academic merit...
According to Pilbeam and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, the current disparity in grades between science and non-science courses appeared about 10 years ago, but since then, grades have "inflated more or less in parallel...
...Pilbeam attributes grade inflation to increased "fraternization" between the Faculty and students...
...change in the dynamic between the generations is not a bad thing, but it doesn't come unencumbered," Pilbeam says...
...Pilbeam says the problem is "more likely to happen in small classes or tutorials...