Sentences with phrase «for grade inflation»

Many explanations have been offered for grade inflation, starting with teachers (one - half, in one study) basing grades on factors only indirectly related to student performance, including effort, ability, behavior, and attitude (Bursuck et al., 1996).

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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 narcissism epidemic is the common denominator underneath many contemporary trends — from grade inflation, to the crass and aggressive tone of so much entertainment, to birthday gifts for high school girls that stupefy the imagination.

Or consider the following finding: 76 per cent of undergraduates trust their faculties, and yet this «trust» is surely strained by the «inflation of grades by faculty [as well as by] competitive awarding of academic credit by some departments and by some institutions for insufficient and inadequate work.»

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Further, though widespread cheating, self - serving grade inflation, theft of books, reneging on debts for educational loans, plagiarism and hucksterism are all too widespread, they are far from universal.

Last September we outlined plans for changes to GCSE qualifications designed to address the grade inflation, dumbing down and loss of rigour in those examinations.

Today's confirmation of Gove's drive to abolish the qualification for good is a major step, coming before the impending Cabinet reshuffle, which is driven by a desire to end complaints about «grade inflation» and reverse Britain's educational decline behind other countries» literacy and numeracy rates.

On Top of the News TAKS grade inflation is nothing new 06/13/10 Houston Chronicle Behind the Headline State Standards Rising in Reading but Not in Math Fall 2010 Education Next It has been reported that the «passing» mark for some parts of the Texas state proficiency exam was altered after the results came -LSB-...]

This more - nuanced form of signaling also increases the stakes for students, since it gives college admissions officers and potential employers additional information with which to evaluate candidates — an especially important factor in an era of grade inflation.

Research shows that minorities accrue greater premiums from educational credentials that signal high achievement than whites, which means that watering down these signals through grade inflation, abolishing external exams, and lowering standards depletes a key resource for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

More surprising still, the voucher school grade inflation is almost as high for math and science (where you'd think an answer is either right or wrong) as it is for Swedish.

A College Board study that says grade inflation is rampant in high schools could be used as an argument for more standardized testing.

In November 2013, Michael Gove reminded us the Coalition had «outlined plans for changes to GCSE qualifications designed to address the grade inflation, dumbing down and loss of...

Due to pressures from exam regulator Ofqual, harsher grading was used for this year's GCSE results as a way to curb «grade inflation» following criticism over some subjects» past papers.

Earlier this month, in an open letter to college presidents and education school deans, Duncan said, «The system we have for training teachers lacks rigor, is out of step with the times, and is given to extreme grade inflation that leaves teachers unprepared and their future students at risk.»

I say, welcome to home schooling and welcome to charter schools, for all the mumbo jumbo of the EdSource article writers on subjects is not really reflecting the fact that our California has in year 2013 - 2014 and currently in year 2014 - 2015, severe, very very severe grade inflation.

In November 2013, Michael Gove reminded us the Coalition had «outlined plans for changes to GCSE qualifications designed to address the grade inflation, dumbing down and loss of rigour in those examinations».

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.

Ms Morgan also used her speech to tell the conference that the Tories had «raised the bar on standards in schools with a rigour revolution», for example by ending grade inflation and introducing a «tough new national curriculum».

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.

The author concludes that such practices as grade inflation and grade nonequivalence make it difficult for college admissions officers to make a valid assessment of a student's achievement in comparison with other applicants.

The Times Educational Supplement (TES) says measures to guard against grade inflation were not appropriate for this year's English exams.

Over time, a broadly diversified index of US investment - grade bonds has produced positive returns (after accounting for inflation) far more frequently than cash (see the chart below).

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.

And while bond investors have suffered setbacks recently as yields have risen by more than a percentage point from their 2016 lows in part because of concerns that tax cuts and infrastructure spending in a Trump administration could spur inflation, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate bond index — a good proxy for the investment - grade taxable bond market — is actually up almost 2 % from the beginning of the year.

In a general way I think that their judgment (nearly all negative and I suspect that those report card grades will be nearly all F's and that coming in this age of grade inflation — darn glad I do not have parents to show it to) reflects on how this blog handles subject matter relative to a paper published for a professional journal.

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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