Inflated Grades, Deflated Courses: Has Insecurity Induced Compromise?.

Cohen, Henry

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ERIC Number: EJ301586

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Publication Date: 1984

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Inflated Grades, Deflated Courses: Has Insecurity Induced Compromise?

Cohen, Henry

Change, v16 n4 p8-10 May-Jun 1984

Economic factors in education are among the important causes of poor student performance. The time that students must work to support themselves has increased greatly to the extent that students are stretched thin between their desire to graduate as rapidly as possible and their need to have an income. (MLW)

Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Course Content, Declining Enrollment, Economic Factors, Educational Quality, Grade Inflation, Higher Education, Retrenchment

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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