Essays on Grade Inflation

Part One

The main purpose of the article is “to assess the concept of grade inflation in higher education institutions in an effort to determine its prevalence, causes, and strategies that can be implemented to curtail it” (Tucker & Courts, 2010, p. 45). The researchers used “A literature review of the problem, as well as several strategies, are presented as possible solutions to restraining the problem of escalating grades in the college classroom” to achieve their objective (Tucker & Courts, 2010, p. 45). The authors established that “The problem of grade inflation has been a topic of concern for over a century and ...

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The Meaning Behind Grade Inflation Academic grades of student have gained a critical rank in the prediction of the student level of achievement and hence the efficiency of the academic process within educational institutions. For example, The “B-Minus Reigns Supreme” is a 2008 article by Laurie Fendrich on grade inflation in institutions of higher learning. It shows an increasing over-emphasis on the importance of scoring a “B” and the expense of equally good “C” grades. Rampant grade inflation has been witnessed at all levels of educational institutions since the 1960s. Grade inflation presents challenges at the less elite educational ...

It is common knowledge that grade inflation exists and that there are so many reasons as to why this happens. It is not only students who stand to ‘benefit’, but professors too. Students want to get higher grades in order to be competent in the job market. Professors on their part feel the pressure to give higher grades for fear of losing their jobs due to poor student evaluations. Such are the reasons why grade inflation continues in institutions of higher learning. One thing that these professors, institutions and students fail to understand is the fact that these students ...

The application and admissions system for higher education in the United Kingdom has a certain reputation for being easy to get into; many students graduate with A-levels or even A* levels, thus granting them the ability to get into the nation’s top colleges, such as LSE, UCL and Imperial. However, given the large number of secondary school students who end up graduating with such high scores as to get into the most prestigious universities, there is a concern that this affects the quality of the student body in these universities. In essence, the chief question being asked is whether or ...

- Introduction and thesis for the topic - The extent of grade inflation, which defines how far grade inflation has been witnessed in the world. - What or who have been the agents of grade inflation - Effects or the results of the extremely favorable examination system Lecturers or professors of previous times cannot clearly tell what has befallen university education. They are in exclusive doubt as we are concerning the extent to which grading have changed in Universities and colleges. To them, it is either the exams have become extremely easy, or the current ...

Every degree program at the University must satisfy a certain set of the course requirement as well as other activities connected to the academics. The university ensures the conditions are clear to all the students, and they are easy to follow. It is the duty of the students to employ all the resources that would assist them in meeting the requirements of the University. The university may set requirements in terms of mean grade required for graduation, lecture rate of attendance per student, minimum course units a student should take, lack of proper internship programs, and the submission of the necessary ...

In the document presented, there are various grammatical errors, which involve colloquialism, passive voice, simplifying, use of commas and long sentences. For instance, a whole new world is a colloquialism that should be replaced with a completely new world. The first sentence also contains passive voice by placing the phrase “was begun” where it was not supposed to be. The sentence would rather read as follows. “The begun of the History of Education was in the very beginning of time”. The writer had also made a simplifying mistake by not considering replacing the last of the conjunction with a comma. For example put into ...

Introduction

The Gentleman’s “Three” is a fictionalized business case study that reflects a performance appraisal system at Arrow electronics company. It is based at Circale Corporation. The VP in charge of human resources, Nils Ekdahl was tasked with the CEO’s directive of $20 million reduction from the payroll within four months. This directive was made after Circale Corporation made two new acquisitions though consultations with the former VP, Michael Milanese. After the new acquisitions were secured, there was an unsuccessful action of replication of the activities and systems from department to department in the company. Opposed to the duplication process, ...