Tag: grade inflation | Frankie Bow

May 21, 2015

Academic Water Cooler Flashback: The Five Stages of Grade-Grubbing

An AWC flashback The Five Stages of Grade-Grubbing Denial ("I'm an 'A' student!") Anger ("You've crushed my dreams of medical school with your totally unfair grading!") Bargaining [1] Depression Escalated Bargaining (including parents going full Boeing Apache on the dean) All of the special snowflakes are remarkably similar! Acceptance Revenge post on The Site That Shall Not Be …

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April 13, 2015

Graduates think they’re well prepared for the job market. Employers aren’t so sure.

Study finds big gaps between student and employer perceptions | InsideHigherEd.com. Frankie Bow's first novel, THE MUSUBI MURDER , is available at Audible.com, Amazon.com, and iTunes. Be the first to learn about promotions, events, and new releases:

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May 16, 2014

The Five Stages of Grade-Grubbing

Denial ("I'm an 'A' student!") Anger ("You've crushed my dreams of medical school!") Bargaining Depression Escalated Bargaining (including parents going full Boeing Apache on the dean) Acceptance Revenge post on That Anonymous Rating Site

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December 20, 2012

You can go to jail for grade-fixing.

I have to admit, I derived an unseemly amount of satisfaction from this story. He was the kind of school administrator some college students might have considered themselves lucky to encounter, someone who was willing to raise grades issued by professors when the students’ marks fell short of graduation requirements...Mr. Koutsoutis, 56, who was director …

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November 8, 2012

Grades and ethics

Jane Robbins at Inside Higher Ed asks, Is Grade Integrity a Fairness Issue? "It seems that when we stop looking at our own (internal) interests for raising grades [getting better evaluations, making our students look good to employers, avoiding fights with parents and grade appeals from students] it becomes harder to justify grade inflation because …

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