[lit-ideas] Re: Grade inflation
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 16:08:53 +0100
Oxford's doing this too.
I doubt I have any insights into grade inflation you don't have. But I
didn't get hassle from admin. or parents, our system just doesn't work that
way. If it comes to that I didn't get much hassle from students except in
the last 2-3 years I taught, when they started to get nasty re my deducting
marks in accordance with the schema they'd been given at the beginning, a
departmental one, when -- they told me - other teachers did not.
we don't examine/grade alone, here, so the pressure that can be brought to
bear on us by students is less. (The External Examiner is a useful person
to invoke!) But still grade inflation occurs; I moved from being as
autonmous as possible in our system at London to often giving in at York.
You remember the young woman Oxford turned down for medicine who got a
scholarship to Harvard instead? *Grade inflation*. Oxford and a few other
universities are now bringing in their own exams to test potential and
almost certainly the school-leaving exams here will be altered so there's a
kind of A plus tier.
any other info I can give, I will!
Judy Evans
jaye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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[mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steven G. Cameron
Sent: 09 April 2004 15:20
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Grade inflation
**Been wresting with (administrators, my students, and their parents)
and my own conscience on this subject for years. Do any of you have
additional insight(s) into this??
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Princeton-Grade-Inflation.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/education/08princeton.html
Aiming to halt widespread grade inflation afflicting Ivy League
colleges, Princeton University officials are proposing to limit the
number of A's that its professors award.
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