ACTA in the NewsGrade Inflation
Western Oregon University Adopts New Grading System
Faculty and administrators at Western Oregon University are aiming to increase student retention rates and foster academic equity by changing...
Students will respect you if you respect them by being honest about the quality of their work and taking the time to help them do better. Often you and they are both fully aware that they haven’t really tried. Make them want to try. You never know the difference your feedback could make. Our C-plus papers were both about Homer, and we went on to become classicists. Would this have happened if our professors had let us coast on unearned confidence?
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Faculty and administrators at Western Oregon University are aiming to increase student retention rates and foster academic equity by changing...
WASHINGTON, DC—As study after study continues to find that grade inflation at universities nationwide shows no sign of abating, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni released today a short guide to help trustees rein in galloping A’s. Measuring Up: The Problem of Grade Inflation and What Trustees Can Do was sent to the boards […]
This guide suggests various strategies that boards of trustees can adopt to curb the problem of grade inflation at their schools. Addressing grade inflation is one way to ensure the academic quality of an institution and to guarantee that students really get something for the tuition they pay. ACTA thanks the D.W. Gore Family Foundation […]
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