Grade Inflation Dilemmas

The grade inflation dilemma seems to be a problem in colleges, some rank students based on a scale using (A+/A-) compared to the rudimentary scale of (A, B, C, etc.). The dilemma is a function of professors and universities that are willing to put the amount of (A’s) in front of the actual grade one may attain if such inflation didn’t exist. Grade inflation causes a change in the sampling distribution, in which the sample would be the students in the classroom. The sampling distribution is dependent on the function of grades attained by students in the class and the final grade. The sampling distribution is affected by grade inflation in which, more students are given a higher grade due to the scale used and education institutional competition.
The paper shows that more students are getting A’s mainly due to the scaling issues that need to be addressed. Professors need the ability to discern high achieving students from students that are doing well in the class and award grades based on their merits. Grade inflation dilutes the number of students that gets A’s, thus more students are making A’s then they should thus skew the results. The article by Lackey et al. explain that grade inflation, is characterized by an increase in grades, without a change in achievement by students. Grade inflation seems to have many confounding variables, which include institutional pressures, and professors who link high grades attained by students to their caliber of teaching. Institutional pressures like in ivy league schools are more prevalent than any other colleges in which, institutions boast about their number of high achieving students, without taking grade inflation into account. Institutions that value high grades over actual grades attained aid in progressing grade