Grading

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Definition

In education, a grade (or mark) is a teacher's standardized evaluation of a student's work.

In some countries, evaluations can be expressed quantifiably, and calculated into a numeric grade point average (GPA). A cumulative grade point average (CGPA) is the mean GPA from all semesters, whereas GPA may only refer to a single semester (Wikipedia)

Grading systems

See Grade (education) (Wikipedia). A good overview of various national grading scales.

Evaluation grids

This topic is almost totally missing from this wiki. But we should have some more information, in particular models to evaluate technology-supported open-ended work ...

See for the moment Wikipedia's Educational assessment and evaluation category (more than 100 articles).

In this wiki:

• Learner assessment
• Progressive project assignment

Grade inflation

Grade inflation is an issue in U.S. education and in GCSEs and A levels in England and Wales. The term refers to the phenomenon of increasing academic grades over time. (Wikipedia, retrieved 18:13, 1 November 2007 (MET).)

It's also an issue here to some extent ...

Software

See Gradebook

Links

General

• Grade (education)(Wikipedia).

Grade inflation

• Gradeinflation.com A 2002 piece written by an ex-university professor
• Grade inflation (Wikipedia)
• Grade Inflation: It's Time to Face the Facts, By HARVEY C. MANSFIELD
• Don't Worry About Grade Inflation Why it doesn't matter that professors give out so many A's by Jordan Ellenberg.
• Grade Inflation, The Economist, october 25 2007.

Bibliography

On grade inflation

• De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny & Solondz, Catharina (2014). Public expenditures, educational outcomes and grade inflation: Theory and evidence from a policy intervention in the Netherlands. Economics of Education Review, June 2014, Volume 40, issue 1 (pp. 152-166).

• Jewell, R. Todd, & McPherson, Michael A. (2012). Instructor‐Specific Grade Inflation: Incentives, Gender, and Ethnicity. Social Science Quarterly, March 2012, Volume 93, issue 1 (pp. 95-109).

• Jewell, R. Todd; McPherson, Michael A. & Tieslau, Margie A. (2013). Whose fault is it? Assigning blame for grade inflation in higher education. Applied Economics, December 2013, Volume 45, issue 9 (pp. 1185-1200).

• Kelly, Thomas F. (2009). Backtalk: Grade Inflation - Sense and Nonsense. The Phi Delta Kappan, May 2009, Volume 90 issue 9 (p. 696)

• Pattison, Evangeleen; Grodsky, Eric & Muller, Chandra (2013). Is the sky falling? Grade inflation and the signaling power of grades. Educational Researcher, June/July 2013, Volume 42, issue 5 (pp. 259-265).