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Molin, Lena; Alm Fjellborg, Andreas – Educational Review, 2021
Grade inflation, involving comparisons between public and independent schools, is presently under discussion in Sweden. This paper reports on discrepancies between national test results and the final course grade in social sciences, in year 9. Open data at school level were used in OLS regression analyses to scrutinise systematic differences…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Correlation, Grade Point Average, Grading
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Dardanoni, Valentino; Modica, Salvatore; Pennisi, Aline – Education Economics, 2011
We study how the relationship between students' cognitive ability and their school grades depends on institutional contexts. In a simple abstract model, we show that unless competence standards are set at above-school level or the variation of competence across schools is low, students' competence valuation will be heterogeneous, with weaker…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation