We were with the twins at LSU for early orientation last week and the school was explaining its adoption of an A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, etc., grading system: to keep up with other schools that use it. Undergrads trying to get into grad schools were finding their 4.0 GPAs were no match for students coming from schools using the plus/minus system and ending up with 4.75 GPAs for the very same grades.
I's sort of a contrarian when it comes to discussions of grade inflation, especially in higher education. My own reading of the data is that GPAs have increased a lot more at highly selective private schools and a lot less rapidly at public (and particularly second-rank publics (which is where I mostly taught). I have a recent rant about grade inflation here: http://signsofchaos.blogspot.com/2016/04/grade-inflation-again.html
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We were with the twins at LSU for early orientation last week and the school was explaining its adoption of an A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, etc., grading system: to keep up with other schools that use it. Undergrads trying to get into grad schools were finding their 4.0 GPAs were no match for students coming from schools using the plus/minus system and ending up with 4.75 GPAs for the very same grades.
/And, thus, the circle continues...
I's sort of a contrarian when it comes to discussions of grade inflation, especially in higher education. My own reading of the data is that GPAs have increased a lot more at highly selective private schools and a lot less rapidly at public (and particularly second-rank publics (which is where I mostly taught). I have a recent rant about grade inflation here:
http://signsofchaos.blogspot.com/2016/04/grade-inflation-again.html
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