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Nominal GPA and Real GPA: a simple adjustment that compensates for grade inflation
Ist Teil von
Assessment and evaluation in higher education, 2005-12, Vol.30 (6), p.561-569
Ort / Verlag
Abingdon: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Grade inflation is a long-standing problem whose seriousness is demonstrated by a wide variety of studies of grade distributions. A few institutions have changed the information on their transcripts in an effort to account for it. Proposals to index grades have been largely unsuccessful for a variety of reasons. A simple index, the Real GPA, is calculated as a ratio of the individual student's instructor-assigned GPA to the average GPA of the class and expressed numerically on the same scale as the inflated assigned grade. Recorded on transcripts next to the Nominal GPA, the Real GPA makes the relative degree of inflation in a transcript immediately visible and creates positive pressures on academic standards.