Evaluation and the Academy: Are We Doing the Right Thing?

By H. Rosovsky, M. Hartley, P. Altbach, S. Bok, C. Fried, C. Gibaldi, Jerome Kagan, D. Whitla, Leslie Berlowitz, C. Schelling. 2002

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Student Entitlement: Issues and Strategies for Confronting Entitlement in the Classroom and Beyond (2009, background): “Rosovsky and Hartley (2002) reviewed several empirical studies of grade inflation at the national level and concluded that grades were inflated substantially between the 1960s and the 1990s.”
Allowing the Market to Rule: The Case of the United States (2003, background): “Harvard University and other selective Ivy League schools have become nationally identified with the problem of increasing grade inflation for undergraduate students (Rosovsky and Hartley, 2002).”
Academic quality, league tables, and public policy: A cross-national analysis of university ranking systems (2005, background): “The issue of university grade inflation and inflation in honors degree awards recently has been raised in both the US and UK (Rosovsky and Hartley 2002; Yorke et al. 2002).”
Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (2020, background): “Between 1969 and 1993, the average combined score on the SAT declined by 5% (Rosovsky & Harley, 2002).”