Measuring Inflation in Grades

Hernandez-Julian, R., & Looney, A. (2016). Measuring Inflation in Grades: An Application of Price Indexing to Undergraduate Grades. Economics of Education Review, 55, 220-232.

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Journal article

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Year

2016

Volume

55

Pages

220-232

DOI

10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.10.005 did not resolve

DOI registrant

Elsevier

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.10.005

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• Instrument Interpretive Drift
  • The pattern recurs in judicial sentencing (the same statutory range, but practice on what counts as a "serious" instance drifts across decades), in survey-response coding (practice drifting across waves as new coders join), in performance reviews (the rubric document unchanged while the practice of "exceeds expectations" drifts under grade-inflation feedback),

    This sourceDecomposes 20 years of Clemson grades and finds roughly half of grade inflation is attributable to more lenient grading within the same subject over time — drift in grading practice under a formally unchanged standard, not improved student performance.

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