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Grade inflation and automatic promotion had nothing to do with Covid - it was occurring when at uni in the 70's, with dean's list definitions changing to reflec
by jleyank 1y ago
Grade inflation and automatic promotion had nothing to do with Covid - it was occurring when at uni in the 70's, with dean's list definitions changing to reflect higher GPA's. Covid isolation might have made things worse, but starting from a mediocre beginning it might also not be significant. People who are interested in subjects, and have anywhere competent teachers tend to do well. Those who are disinterested, or faced with "disappointing" teachers do less well.
The spread of things like ChatGPT is going to make things worse. And there's a whole lot of parents who are certain their precious offspring are (well) above average. Wasn't that a feature of Lake Wobegone? EDIT: and how common is the attitude "I paid a lot for your product, give me the grades..."?
- Teever 1y agoYou bring up something that I thought about a while back but never took the time to do any research on. To what extent was grade inflation of young men during the 60s and 70s common place due to the draft for the Vietnam war? It seems to me that there's a likely possibility that professors and graders would be more willing to go easy on male students to prevent them from being sent to fight in Vietnam. I wonder if anyone has done analysis on the grades from the era has has detected a measurable different.
- jleyank 1y ago‘Nam ended in the early 70’s and I think the student deferment ended before the war did. But it’s a good theory. Much of academia was probably not on board. Perhaps the war edited out some classes of students that influenced grades?