grade-inflation-recommended-resources

Lake Wobegon meets grade inflation: Are all our students above average?

AEJMC Standing Committee on Teaching 2011 Plenary Session Recommended Resources Bar, T., Kadiyali, V. & Zussman, A. (2009). Grade information and grade inflation: The Cornell experiment. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23 (3), 93-108.

Gordon, M.E. & Palmon, O. (2010). Spare the rigor, spoil the learning: It is time for the faculties of American college and universities to take teaching – and their students’ futures – more seriously. Available: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2010/JA/feat/gord.htm Johnson, V.E. (2003). Grade inflation: A crisis in college education. New York: Springer-Verlag.

National Survey of Student Engagement. Available: http://nsse.iub.edu/ Rampell, C. (2010, May 13). Grade inflation: Your questions answered. The New York Times.

Available: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/grade-inflation-your-questionsanswered/ Rojstaczer, S., & Healy, C. (in press). When A is ordinary: The evolution of American college and university grading, 1960-2010. Teachers College Record.

Rojstaczer, S., & Healy, C. (2010). Grading in American Colleges and Universities. Teachers College Record.

Rojstaczer, S. (2009, March 24). College grades gone wild. The Christian Science Monitor. Available: http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0324/p09s02-coop.html Rojstaczer, S. (2003, January 28). Where all grades are above average. The Washington Post, p.

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Rojstaczer, S. (1999). Gone for good: Tales of university life after the golden age. New York: Oxford University Press.

Shepard, A. C. (2005, June 5). A’s for everyone: In an era of rampant grade inflation, some college students find it shocking to discover there are 26 letters in the alphabet. The Washington Post, p. W19.

Wilson, M. & Gerber, L.E. (2008). How generational theory can improve teaching: Strategies for working with the “millennials.” Currents in Teaching and Learning, 1 (1), pp. 29-44.