<p>This all came under interest when after a little snooping around my college's website. According to my school, the Dean's List GPA is 3.75 which I found out that 26.5% of my school had earned. A little more research and I found the average school GPA to be 3.49 which either means my school is full of very hardworking people(which isn't a bad thing) or that there is some form of grade inflation.</p>
<p>I've always understood what grade inflation is, how does it work exactly? Is it just, say, a student getting a C average in a class, but at the end of the semester the professor may just give him a B? Isn't the professor in jeopardy of losing their job then?</p>
<p>im pretty sure its just when teachers give tons of extra points for “participation” or little easy quizzes and stuff to boost your grade. if there aren’t any rules against it, I think it makes the teacher look better because her students are getting good grades</p>
<p>Grade inflation isn’t usually like you earn a grade in your class and then the teacher boosts in some way, it’s more like the teacher makes a special effort to make the class easier from the beginning. For instance, my brother goes to a forth tier school and some of his teachers require rough drafts, which they then review and effectively tell people every single thing to change or add. Then, the students resubmit the paper and nearly everyone makes an “A.”</p>