Research Catalog

Title

Grade inflation : a crisis in college education / Valen E. Johnson.

Author

Johnson, Valen E.

Publication

New York : Springer, ©2003.

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Details

Description

viii, 262 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Within any college or university, several different approaches to grading are used to evaluate students. Disparities in grading practices have serious consequences for both students and faculty, the most obvious being inequitable evaluations of students. More serious effects include a reduction in the number of science and mathematics courses that students take and a general degradation of academic standards. Recent efforts to reform grading practices have been thwarted by the claim that higher grades simply reflect higher levels of student achievement." "Professor Johnson provides evidence that this claim is not true. He also shows that student evaluations of instruction are affected by an instructor's grading practices, grading practices significantly alter student enrollment patterns, and grades assigned in an unregulated academic environment do not have a consistent and objective interpretation across departments and institutions. This book challenges many myths about grading, and exposes the negative influence that grades exert on our educational system."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Gosset, William Sealy
• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• USA
• United States
• Beoordeling
• Studieresultaten
• Student
• Tertiärbereich
• Studienverhalten
• Studienfachwahl
• Hochschullehrer
• Hochschulabschluss
• Evaluation
• Akademischer Grad
• Grading and marking (Students) > United States
• Student evaluation of teachers > United States
• College students > Rating of > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-258) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

The DUET experiment -- DUET survey items -- Issues of nonresponse -- Grades and student evaluations of teaching -- Observational studies -- Experimental studies -- DUET analysis of grades and SETs -- Intervening variables and student evaluations of teaching -- Implications for grading theories -- Causal effects of student grades on SETs -- Standardization procedures for analyses of "intervening variables and SETS" -- Effects on nonresponse in analysis of "intervening variables and SETs" -- Regression coefficients for analyses of causal effects of grades on SETS -- Validity of SETs -- SET development -- Toward product measures of student achievement -- Grades and student course selection -- Analysis of the DUET course selection data -- Effects of sample selection -- Extension of selection decisions between academic fields -- Grading equity -- Differential grading standards -- Methods for grade adjustment.

ISBN

• 0387001255
• 9780387001258
• 1441918019
• 9781441918017
• 0802138292
• 9780802138293

LCCN

2002042741

OCLC

• ocm51028939
• 51028939
• SCSB-8917619

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library