Sentences with phrase «board grade inflation»
To address this across - the - board grade inflation, StudentsFirstNY is calling for an independent audit of school coursework in NYC public schools to ensure that it is on grade level.
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A College Board study that says grade inflation is rampant in high schools could be used as an argument for more standardized testing.
Correspondence between Ofqual and the boards shows that the exam boards were under pressure from Ofqual to guard against grade inflation.
A recent report from the College Board investigates two key issues: grade inflation, in which teachers over time assign increasingly higher grades for a given level of achievement; and grade nonequivalence across schools, in which teachers in different schools apply different grading standards for the same curricular material.
It's that grade inflation is accelerating in the schools attended by higher - income Americans, who are also much more likely to be white, the research, by the College Board, found.
Heads suggested the exams had been marked over-harshly after Ofqual told exam boards to keep an eye on grade inflation