| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 223 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The dangerous myth of grade inflation / Alfie Kohn -- Undergraduate grades: a more complex story than "inflation" / Clifford Adelman -- Understanding grade inflation / Richard Kamber -- Grade inflation and grade variation: what's all the fuss about? / Harry Brighouse -- From here to equality: grading policies for egalitarians / Francis K. Schrag -- Grade "inflation" and the professionalism of the professoriate / Mary Biggs -- Fissures in the foundation: why grade conflation could happen / Mary Biggs -- Grading teachers: academic standards and student evaluations / Lester H. Hunt -- Combating grade inflation: obstacles and opportunities / Richard Kamber -- Grade distortion, bureaucracy, and obfuscation at the University of Alabama / David T. Beito and Charles W. Nuckolls -- Afterword: focusing on the big picture / Lester H. Hunt. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grading and marking (Students) -- United States.
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Grading and marking (Students) |
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United States. |
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Education, Higher -- Standards -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- Standards. |
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Education, Higher. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hunt, Lester H., 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grade inflation. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008 9780791474976 0791474976 (DLC) 2007034088 (OCoLC)166317511 |
| ISBN |
9781435663763 (electronic book) |
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1435663764 (electronic book) |
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