Valen E. Johnson

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Grade Inflation (eBook, PDF)

A Crisis in College Education

Beschreibung

This book on the causes of grade inflation will be of interest to faculty in all disciplines.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 1.8MB

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780387215921
• Artikelnr.: 43998583

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "GRADE INFLATION is an important book. Johnson does an excellent job of making the sophisticated statistical results accessible and understandable. It should be read by every faculty member who serves on a personnel committee, as well as by all academic administrators." (THE IRASCIBLE PROFESSOR, 2003) "GRADE INFLATION is a tour de force...his book is a major contribution to the growing literature on this important subject...[it] is essential reading for everyone interested in the integrity of both academic standards and assessment of student learning. Surely its definitive treatment of grade inflation will be well received by the academy and its constituencies and will foster long-needed reform." (Brian Manhire, Ohio

University) "...This is a wonderful book. The reviewer would strongly recommend this book to anyone who teaches on the college level, and more importantly to faculty senates who traditionally retain the authority to make change in grading policies." (COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY JOURNAL, Winter 2004) "This is a very thorough analysis of the ways in which variability in grading practice-across institutions, faculties/departments and individual courses-have consequences for the popularity of student choice of options, in student evaluations of teaching (SETs) and in a general degradation of academic standards." (Short Book Reviews of the International Statistical Institute, April 2004) "Grade Inflation - A Crisis in College Education by Valen E. Johnson is, in the opinion of the Irascible Professor, an outstanding contribution to the debate about the effects of ever rising grades in colleges and universities across the United States. ... Grade Inflation is an important book. Johnson does an excellent job of making the sophisticated statistical results accessible and understandable. It should be read by every faculty member who serves on a personal committee, as well as by all academic administrators." (Dr. Mark H. Shapiro, Irascibleprofessor.com, June, 2003)