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备--su1998_A Systematic Approach to Fair Achievement Indexing In Higher Education.pdf
Grade Inflation: A Systematic Approach to Fair Achievement Indexing In Higher
Education
ABSTRACT
Grade inflation is a problem that effects many higher learning institutions. We show that
it is possible to modify the current ranking system in order to more accurately rate
students throughout a university and curb the problem of grade inflation. Using ideas of
standard deviation, mean, and median our model can justly rank students into
appropriate deciles. Our model handles universities that use the plus/minus system as
well as those universities that do not. Since a student is rated by analyzing the average
grade in that students class, our model can deal with the idea of class difficulty as well
as class size. The changing of one students grade does not drastically change the
members of the individual deciles due to our use of a mean/median analysis of the class.
This mean/median procedure takes into consideration the skewness of a classs grades.
Suppose A Better Class University (ABCU) has a particular class in which the majority of
the students received an A. Our model ranks these students as being average in that
class and thus lowers the overall rating for that student. We have written a relatively
simple algorithm that can be easily implemented in many different university settings.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
A Better Class University (ABCU) has had the benefit of a few wealthy alumni for the past
few years. Thanks to their generous contributions, the dean has compiled a scholarship
program which will award a hearty grant to the top students in the school. Also, there
are a number of additional grants possible for students in other deciles. However, the
constantly rising grade point averages at universities across the nation have made it
increasingly difficult to distinguish between excellent and average students. For
example, The Chronicle of Higher Education found that the mean grade-point average at
Duke university was 3.3 in 1997,
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