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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Primes¶
- 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.
- 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),
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