What is Grade Inflation?

Graduate School Law School
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<p>This might seem like an inane question, but what is grade inflation?? I haven't heard it used in context...</p>

<p>Thank you :]</p>

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<p>Grade inflation is basically when teachers give out higher grades than what the students actually deserve. this may happen because of pressure from students and parents, it also can be caused by curves on tests. humanities courses show a great amount of great inflation while science and math classes show less incidence of grade inflation.</p>

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<p>Where do the English, History, and Political Science majors fall on that spectrum?</p>

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<p>The humanities in general have a reputation for grade inflation. </p>

<p>Science and engineering departments produce a product that gets evaluated in the world of work. There would be hell to pay if employers found that product to be defective.</p>

<p>Humanities departments don’t have to worry about this sort of thing as much and some professors take this as license to teach whatever they want and give whatever grades they need to give in order to keep everyone happy.</p>

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<p>Oh, thank you! I suppose that concept has always existed, just a different term than what I expected.</p>

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<p>Is there a formula to measure grade inflation? Something where you take the average LSAT or MCAT of a school and you take the average GPA and plug them into something to get like R=.38. Thoughts?</p>

<p>Because I’d really like to find out how my school fairs?</p>

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<p>It’s one of those things that you-know-it-when-you-see-it. :)</p>

<p>For example, two schools on opposite coasts are darn near impossible to flunk out of. Indeed, one of them even got rid of F-grades. In contrast, it’s nearby public competitor awards D’s and F’s like candy, and grades science course on a C+. Or, take Brown University, with a mean senior gpa of ~3.6, which I think is the highest in the land. Of course, some college has to be at the top, but, if that ain’t an example of grade inflation, what is?</p>

<p>but, check out gradeinflation . com</p>

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<p>Post #29 here has a preliminary analysis:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/law-school/266240-question-about-top-law-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/law-school/266240-question-about-top-law-schools.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>And you determine what grades students “deserve” how?</p>