Description
Abstract: This study investigates grades from 1980 to 2010 in English 102 at Arizona State University Tempe Campus to see if grade inflation has taken place. It concludes it has and then goes on to study the causes. The data was collected from existing data held in the archives of the Registrar's Office, collated into proper order and saved in proper numerical format for analysis. After analysis, the data was reviewed to establish whether or not as consumer demands rise, measured by student responses to evaluation questions, grade point averages rise as well, and whether demands for adequate performance in classrooms have declined. This study statistically analyzes students' final grades in ENG102 for thirty years and concludes that grade compression at the top of the grading scale exists. This study discusses the implications of that compression at length.
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Title
- Grade inflation in English 102: thirty years of data
Contributors
- Simmons, Cynthia Anne (Author)
- Gelderen, Elly van (Thesis advisor)
- Gillon, Carrie (Committee member)
- Lockard, Joe (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2015
Subjects
- Rhetoric
- Educational evaluation
- Education Policy
- Commoditized Higher Education
- Grade Inflation
- Grading Policies
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Arizona--Tempe--Longitudinal studies.
- English language
- Grading and marking (Students)--Arizona--Tempe--Longitudinal studies.
- Grading and marking (Students)
- College students--Rating of--Arizona--Tempe--Longitudinal studies.
- College students
- Education, Higher--Economic aspects--Arizona--Tempe.
- Education, Higher
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Note
- thesisPartial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2015
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 113-114)
- Field of study: English
Citation and reuse
Statement of Responsibility
by Cynthia Anne Simmons