generally speaking, it is kind of difficult to muster sufficient evidence that the amount of grade inflation that is observed ... within and across schools or colleges ... is due to an increase in student ability
i find it difficult to believe that the average ability at a place like harvard has gone up ... but if so, very much over the years ... if anything, selectivity has decreased at some of these top schools due to the fact that given their extremely high tuition ... they need to keep their dorms full and, making standards higher and higher would have the opposite effect on keep dorms filled At 11:58 AM 12/6/01 -0500, Rich Ulrich wrote: >Just in case someone is interested in the Harvard instance >that I mentioned -- while you might get the article from a newsstand >or a friend -- > >On Sun, 02 Dec 2001 19:19:38 -0500, Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >================================================================= _________________________________________________________ dennis roberts, educational psychology, penn state university 208 cedar, AC 8148632401, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
