Grade Inflation: Academic Standards in Higher Education

By Lester H. Hunt

An authoritative and provocative discussion of the key issues surrounding grade inflation and its possible effects on academic excellence.

This book provides a provocative look at the issues and controversies surrounding grade inflation, and, more generally, grading practices in American higher education. The contributors confront the issues from a number of different disciplines and varying points of view. Topics explored include empirical evidence for and against the claim that there is a general upward trend in grading, whether grade inflation (if it exists) is a problem, which ethical considerations are relevant to grading, and whether heavy reliance on anonymous student evaluations of teaching excellence has a distorting effect on grading practices. Finally, the contributors offer contrasting perspectives on the prospects for reform.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791474984
• ISBN13: 9780791474983
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher