Sentences with phrase «between grade inflation»
At Prawfs Blawg, Dan Markel offers an interesting suggestion for striking a balance between grade inflation and providing students with honest feedback: the ironic grade.
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In the absence of a pickup in consumer spending, annualized, real GDP — adjusted for inflation — is forecast to be between 2 % and 2.5 %, instead of the 4 % average since World War II, and annualized returns on US equities and investment - grade bonds is estimated at 4 % and 1 %, respectively, for the next 10 years.
The above report seems to indicate that grade inflation occurred between the sixties and nineties but has now stabilised.
The move comes as part of dramatic curriculum reforms designed to improve the value and reduce inflation of top grades, allowing schools, colleges and employers to better differentiate between candidates.
Correspondence between Ofqual and the boards shows that the exam boards were under pressure from Ofqual to guard against grade inflation.
These days, there is an ETF for all the main types of bonds — government, corporate, municipal, short - / medium - / long duration, investment grade, non-investment grade, emerging markets, developed markets, interest rate hedged, convertible, inflation - linked, variable rate, and mostly everything in between.