Analysis of two decades of student data at a large U.S. university suggests that grade inflation exists in graduate education ...

A new study reveals that grade inflation is occurring in graduate and doctoral programs, with master’s students experiencing ...

Predicted GPA by year and by degree level. Predicted values are conditional on model covariates and reflect the reference groups used in the analyses (female and White students), with GRE held at its ...

Data on students’ average grades over the past two decades show that the average grade given at Swarthmore has risen across all divisions.

A new study from the University of Texas, however, says grade inflation is a problem. Lenient grades lead to worse outcomes ...

Like monetary inflation, runaway A’s in higher education are a collective-action problem. About two-thirds of grades at ...

Since pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses began waning, culture warriors have been casting about for a new controversy in elite higher education. Last October, Harvard handed them one. Amanda ...

Recently, there has been a lot of handwringing over grade inflation both at the higher education and K–12 levels, but how big of a problem actually is grade inflation? What sort of effect does grade ...

Across the country, universities are using this and other alternative grading models that guarantee high marks based on some standard other than merit. Alternative grading schemes like these—often ...