Sentences with phrase «raising their grading curves»

Studious nerds were socially isolated for raising the grading curve for everyone else.

He illustrates the wide variation in law school grading curves, and points out that some schools have already been raising their grading curves, presumably to gain an advantage in the employment market.

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As James Coleman observed as early as 1959, students often gang up to pick on the «curve raiser»: when students are graded on a curve relative to one another, those who work hard and raise the class average make things difficult for other students, who must then work harder for their grades (see «The Adolescent Society,» features, Winter 2006).

One of the questions raised by this Article is whether grading the course in a different manner — using a criteria - referenced grading method, rather than a curve — will cause any slippage of the gains achieved.69