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Direct linkWalsh, Patrick – Journal of School Choice, 2010
This paper considers whether high schools in competitive environments use grade inflation to attract and retain families, perhaps in addition to more constructive responses. Two measures of grade inflation are used: the cutoffs used by each school to assign a letter grade to a percent score and high school grade point average after controlling for…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Grade Inflation, Competition, Least Squares Statistics
