[EAS] Curbing Grade Inflation

[pjk]

Subject:   Curbing Grade Inflation

It ought more properly to be called "grade compression" because
everything gets squeezed into the A, A-, B+ range. Allusions to
remedying the situation I've heard objected to as "unilateral
disarmament."

There may finally be a gathering momentum to put more meaning back
into grading, led by Princeton
<http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/04/0419/1b.shtml>.

Re. more fundamental limits to the meaning of grades, see my earlier
<http://jove.eng.yale.edu/pipermail/eas-info/2004/000665.html>.

   --PJK