Since grade deflation is going to happen, we might as well embrace it and reapproach academics, not for a grade, but for its own sake.
In Response to "Results of New Grading Policy Reported," from "Parents News" Volume 29, Number 1: The policy of grade deflation causes grades to go down, according to a recent study published in the ...
Most professors do not think the repeal of the grade deflation policy will have a marked effect on their grading, according to close to 50 interviews conducted by The Daily Princetonian in the days ...
I’m going to make a statement that I’m certain each reader will agree with: At some point in our college careers, we have all felt that we have received a grade that is lower than what we deserve. The ...
Boston University students say grade deflation – the administrative reaction to years of grade inflation – has become a major problem at the university, and many say its effects have already touched ...
The math department’s new grading policy is meant to make grading more equitable across different lectures of the same courses. But some students say it closely resembles a quota system – which the ...
Six years ago, Princeton University adopted a new goal for grades issued in all academic departments: that A’s would account for no more than 35% of all grades. Naturally, this met with some ...
Students across England are receiving lower grades than they might have done in 2022. The percentage of A or A* grades given for A-levels has fallen from 35.9% to 26.5% in 2023. Pupils’ grades are ...
The UC Berkeley Office of Planning and Analysis, or OPA, recently released a database that lists student GPAs by major since 2007, revealing a trend of undergraduate grade deflation across a number of ...