Grade inflation at university harms everyone

By Jillian Abbott
Updated October 30 2017 - 9:48am, first published October 12 2017 - 10:35am
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Generic students, university exams, lecture.
Students sitting an exam.
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The emails from my students will start immediately after grades are posted. I try to nudge these students to accept the grade they were given, but all too often I will need to sit with them and go sentence by sentence through the final paper explaining every decision I made.