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Adjusting GPAs: A Statistician's Effort To Tackle Grade Inflation

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:00AM from the precious-snowflakes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A recent analysis of 200 colleges and universities published in the Teachers College Record found 43 percent of all letter grades awarded in 2008 were A's, compared to 16 percent in 1960. And Harvard's student paper recently reported the median grade awarded to undergraduates at the elite school is now an A-. A statistician at Duke tried to make a difference and stirred up a hornet's nest in the process."

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Re:The whole system needs to change by Max+Threshold · 2014-02-10 08:24 · Score: 3, Informative

"The purpose of school isn't to differentiate between who are the elite and who are the median . . ."
Yes, it is.