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Grade Inflation
...more on the table than education (Thx Dulltoon)
Grade Inflation
If you're an old fogie like me then you may have been similarly perplexed over the years as to how high school and university students were able to achieve extremely top marks yet seemed exceptionally ignorant about so-called basic facts. Quiz many of them on basic economics or history or geography or even the Times Tables and more often than not a blank stare is all you get back.
There is now an explanation for this and it lies in a trend called Grade Inflation. Simply put, this is the tendency of student grades to rise over time. There are several possible reasons for this phenomenon. All of them should lead employers to be very suspicious about the veracity of transcripts provided by younger applicants.
Some educators are trying to fight back against it but guaranteed there will be a lot of forces pushing back against them. Too many students now feel entitled to top marks even if they've done little to no work to justify them.
There is now an explanation for this and it lies in a trend called Grade Inflation. Simply put, this is the tendency of student grades to rise over time. There are several possible reasons for this phenomenon. All of them should lead employers to be very suspicious about the veracity of transcripts provided by younger applicants.
Some educators are trying to fight back against it but guaranteed there will be a lot of forces pushing back against them. Too many students now feel entitled to top marks even if they've done little to no work to justify them.
Continue reading Grade Inflation.
...more on the table than education (Thx Dulltoon)
...good luck Kathy!
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