Thursday, August 4, 2011

Grade Inflation

My colleague, Steve Allen, discusses grade inflation.  Grade inflation is a problem that "cheapens" the effort of the hardest working and brightest students.

I'd agree with Steve that the correlation between grades and teaching evaluations is weak at best.  One possible solution is to scale teaching evaluations by the course GPA.  This would reduce the incentive to "buy" evaluations.

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