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| Grade Inflation | 1 |
| Grading | 1 |
| Higher Education | 1 |
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| Assessing Writing | 1 |
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| Agnew, Eleanor | 1 |
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Peer reviewedAgnew, Eleanor – Assessing Writing, 1995
Discusses "grade inflation," and the pressure on instructors to "play grade roll politics to save their own professional hides." Argues that the grade deflation movement works at cross purposes with its goal of elevating academic standards, and that it is at odds with composition theory and its process pedagogy. Suggests…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade Inflation, Grading, Higher Education
