Inflating Grades

“Inflating the Grades” by Stephen Goode and Timothy W. Maier, discusses the

grade inflation very well. Colleges all across the United States are setting high standards when it comes to the grading system. According to students who have various teachers, will determine whether the correct grading system is being enforced and not inflated. Several students find that making “A’s” and” B’s” easier than they thought. The trend is widespread. At Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, for example, three-quarters of the more than 20,000 grades given out to undergraduates in the spring semester a year ago were A's and B's, and at Carnegie-Mellon University in the same city, the A's and B's accounted for nearly two-thirds of the grades. Critics of college grading practices say that it’s time to bring academic rigor and high standards back to campuses where mediocrity has become the accepted norm (Goode and Maier 345).

Melvyn Leffler, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

After reading the story “Inflating the Grades”, I have a new perspective on the American College Grading System. There is a point when the level of college grading becomes easy and that is when students tend to take advantage of it. Teachers insist that students produce college level work for college grades. Instructors who are lenient graders send the message that students can maximize their gains with little effort. Over the decades the grades have inflated and it is now easy than ever to receive a simple “A” or “B”. This is why the average college has a good grading system rating. Of course the statistics are high, be cause it’s easier to receive a good grade. Instructors who inflate grades, for whatever reason undermine their responsibilities as teachers as well as the student's responsibility for academic performance

at the University of Virginia says, "We considered the possibility that the rise in grades was due to better students, and rejected that explanation. It just didn't work." Leffler's not sure what explanation to give

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