“C is for competent; it’s good enough for me.” I sometimes sing this little parody of Sesame Street in my head. What this means to me is that, getting through the day without screwing anything up is, in my book, a level of success that...
grade inflation
On the AdjunctNation.com Web site, we asked users to tell us whether they had ever inflated grades to get more positive student evaluations. Almost 20 percent of the 400+.
by A. Botein-Furrevig, Ph.D. In Garrison Keillor’s mythical town of Lake Wobegon, the men are strong, the women are beautiful, and the children are above average. Judging by college transcripts.
by Chris Cumo Part-time faculty should think twice before marking up a stack of essays. An adjunct lecturer at Southern Connecticut State University, who spoke on condition of anonymity, suspects she lost a part-time stint at another college because she wouldn’t hand out As and...
ACT study finds that the trend of rising GPAs accelerated after 2016 and intensified during the pandemic by Jill Barshay It may be self-serving for a test maker to produce.
By Donald Hurwitz GRADE INFLATION. The subject is hardly new, and it is real: GPAs on college campuses sit on the border of A-/B+, and grades have ratcheted up a notch.
