With more students boasting flashy GPAs, academic honors lose their luster
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Re: With more students boasting flashy GPAs, academic honors lose their luster
#2"Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super...
[laughs maniacally]
...no one will be." - Syndrome, The Incredibles
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#3Oooooh, these distinctions are given by absolute GPA and not by class ranking ? That's a shame...
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#5There is much weight to the argument that the requirements to be a successful student have gone down, I'm inclined to believe that the requirements have skyrocketed. Students today are faced with an ever ballooning bulk of knowledge with which they are supposed to find the boundaries and gain control of enough interconnected parts to become a useful contributor to society. There's a lot of noise in the system, but the system is growing larger and larger. There's more footwork that could be done.
Is it so hard to believe that more students are performing at a close enough level to their forbears to deserve the honor?
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#6Relevant Mitchell and Webb sketch, Everyone gets an A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGA11A340Ck
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#7There is much weight to the argument that the requirements to be a successful student have gone down, I'm inclined to believe that the requirements have skyrocketed. Students today are faced with an ever ballooning bulk of knowledge with which they are supposed to find the boundaries and gain control of enough interconnected parts to become a useful contributor to society. There's a lot of noise in the system, but th…
Yeah, it is. Grade inflation is a well known, documented phenomena. Unfortunately I have no time to link the papers on this subject, but if you search, they are there.
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#8It seems there is a moral hazard involved here- administrators pressuring professors to pass more students, which leads to grade inflation. All this to retain students and keep the tuition money flowing.
I'd love to hear from front-line profs about this issue- does grade inflation need to be addressed?
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#9There is much weight to the argument that the requirements to be a successful student have gone down, I'm inclined to believe that the requirements have skyrocketed. Students today are faced with an ever ballooning bulk of knowledge with which they are supposed to find the boundaries and gain control of enough interconnected parts to become a useful contributor to society. There's a lot of noise in the system, but th…
Yeah, it is. Grade inflation is a well known, documented phenomena. Unfortunately I have no time to link the papers on this subject, but if you search, they are there.
Have school grades ever deflated? Or undergone some sort of correction? No citation needed, anecdotes are fine.
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#10Especially since in some graduate schools, you can’t graduate with less than a 3.0.....