Grade Inflation Gone Wild

Individual professors inflate grades after consumer conscious administrators hound them into it” (Staples 1). Another reason they do this is because many students will threaten that they will give bad reviews on the school if they aren’t given the grades they want: “Writing in the last issue of the journal Academe, two part-timers suggest that students routinely corner adjuncts, threatening to complain if they do not turn C’s into A’s” (Staples 1). Students are taking college so seriously whether it's about money or their grades, it’s getting out of hand. Some students are even suing to get good grades.

The well-known phrase of hard work pays off is a staple of any culture to enforce the ideology that you deserve what you earn. In Brent Staples’, Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's, he informs the reader of the current situations in colleges and universities involving grade inflation. Grade inflation is devaluing many degrees across the country as an “easy way out” to succeed on both the students and professors ends. Staples makes it known that the higher education, many go back to school for, is being discredited due to the professors in the field. Thus, leaving students at a disadvantage to accept a higher grade, when it is known that they have not fairly earned it.

Summary on Kurt Wiesenfeld’s “Making the Grade” In the Essay “Making the Grade” written by Kurt Wiesenfeld, He tells us all about his experience with students coming to him after grades have been posted wanting their grades changed or asking how to get a better grade. In this essay he argues about how students wait or just plain out don’t do their work and then what a better grade which they have not earned. He also, argues that student now days are set in an era where everyone wins.

Many times an article can be looked over, and not taken very seriously when it seems as if the author has no proof or evidence. With this being said Phil Primack wrote the article “Doesn’t Anybody Get a C Anymore?” Where he from the beginning established that there was a problem when he explained how a student said a B was a “low grade.” Primack used a lot of quotes from other people and professors that validate his main claim, and the points he is making. A similar article is Stuart Rojstaczer article “Grade Inflation Gone Wild” where he clearly states the problem of grade inflation.

Brent Staple’s essay "Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's" had various elements that helped provided evidence and persuade the readers. The first thing I noticed when reading this essay was the comparison between the marketplace and college. This comparison helps to develop Staple’s argument because it explains something that is unfamiliar by comparing it to something that is more familiar. I can assume that the target readers were business men and women. Since I am unfamiliar with some business terms, I found that this essay explained something that was unfamiliar with something else that was unfamiliar.

In Carl Singleton’s article, “What Our Education System Needs is More F’s,” he argues that students aren’t receiving the failing grades they deserve. School systems are to blame for the lack of quality in America’s education. No other recommendation for improvement will succeed. The only way to fix the American education system is to fail more students. According to Singleton, the real root of the issue is with the parents.

Grade inflation has been rising in education in the United States. Stuart Rojstaczer and Phil Primack both have arguments about grade inflation. They both see how it is affecting the quality of education. Today, the expectations and pressures to receive the higher grades takes its toll on the students and the professors. Rojstaczer and Primack make their points about the widespread occurrence of grade inflation affects the credibility of earning a degree.

In Kurt Wiesenfeld’s article “Making the Grade”, he address the issue that students want a higher grade than they deserve. He goes on to prove this be by giving examples of previous students that he has had and what can happen when students get the grades that they want and not what they deserve. In Wiesenfeld’s article he states that about ten percent of students that take his class do not care about their grades until final grades are over. “You might groan and moan, but you accepted it as the outcome of your efforts or lack thereof,” Wiesenfeld stated.

Did you know that paying students for having good grades resulted in a decrease in dropout rates, gangs, alcohol, and drug use? Students should get paid for having excellent grades. The reason why this is important is because it could lead to a brighter future for society. Three reasons why students should get paid for having awesome grades is because cash for good grades provide students with career-like rewards, it decreases dropout rates, and with the right incentive,could lead to success. All of those three reasons could and will result in success.

In school there are many students who are fine with getting or having a D or above. Then there are the student’s who only accept A’s

Considering the choice between getting paid for good grades or not. Students should definitely choose not to. Paying students for honorable grades can cause problems in class, losing the natural love of learning, and learning to get money only. If the schools don’t agree with this claim, it won’t matter because they are ruining the education system. Paying students for high grades is an unacceptable idea.

The same grades can mean different levels of effort for different people. Offering a student money for good grades can take away the importance of working without a reward, in general. Learning should be done all your life, not just when you’re paid for it. Grades don’t show effort equally.

The reason the other grading system will not really give you a chance. To pull your grades up so you can pass the class. If we have a chance to pull ower grades up the teachers will not have to have

View by low and higher ranking students The higher ranking students would complain that using whole numbers in assigning grades would hurt the students grades, for instance, a overall grade that falls short of 4 is dropped to a 3 point score and therefore makes it hard for the higher ranking students to earn an overall A. Further, the higher ranking students would complain that the grading system makes no distinction between the upper performers because it results in many 4 points grades, when the whole number system is used. Rankings can result in unfavorable results to higher ranking students who wish to join colleges of their choice. On the other hand, the lower ranking students would complain that the grading system does not make a distinction between the very low performers and the students who went just some point short of the 60% score. Therefore, the grading system would award a failure to a student who completed all the assignments and failed in just some of the courses. In addition, students may prefer to take relatively easy course so as to ensure a higher ranking in their classroom.

Grade Inflation: How to Handle the Problem In the 2004 article “Let’s Put the Excellence Back in the A” by the author Hamilton J. Frank. In the article he talked about the problem which is the grade inflation. I have summarized what the article said about this issue. Grade inflation is a worldwide serious problem that is has been going on for years. This problem is still happening in every school, collage, and even businesses.