Do High Grading Standards Affect Student Performance

By David N. Figlio, M. E. Lucas. 2004

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Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower poverty schools (2012, unknown): “Similarly, Figlio and Lucas (2004) demonstrate that withinschool variation in grading standards (and presumably other teacher behaviors as well) is nearly the same as the overall variation in grading standards.”
Using higher order thinking questions to foster critical thinking: a classroom study (2012, background): “As a result, they may have experienced lower levels of motivation to engage with the material (Figlio & Lucas, 2004 ).”
Names, Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap (2005, background): “There is reason to believe that expectations matter: The recent work on teacher grading standards (Betts, 1995; Betts and Grogger, 2003; Figlio and Lucas, 2004) indicates that higher standards lead to improved student test scores.”
International Evidence on School Competition, Autonomy, and Accountability: A Review (2007, background): “In related literature, Figlio and Lucas (2004) reported U.”
Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn-Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure (2006, background): “For schools with low achieving students, the average was 51 percent of class time (Frederick, 1977). Overall, Frederick, Walberg and Rasher (1979) estimated 46 percent of the potential learning time is lost due to absence, lateness, inattention, classroom disruptions or teachers being off task.”