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From: Jim Clark [mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca]
Sent: Mon 12/21/2009 7:53 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Lazy American Students and Their Grades
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On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:31:54 -0800, William Scott wrote:
>Make Palij wrote:
>
>"The reason for this appeared to be that students could drop a course without
>consequence up to the 12th or so week in the semester. So, students who saw
>that they were failing going in the final weeks could drop th
ke Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu]
Sent: Mon 12/21/2009 5:56 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Cc: Mike Palij
Subject: re: [tips] Lazy American Students and Their Grades
Before we start engaging in "Who's got the Biggest Grade Inflation
Problem", perhaps it should be not
Make Palij wrote:
"The reason for this appeared to be that students could drop a course without
consequence up to the 12th or so week in the semester. So, students who saw
that they were failing going in the final weeks could drop the course with
their G.P.A. unaffected."
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Before we start engaging in "Who's got the Biggest Grade Inflation
Problem", perhaps it should be noted that grade inflation is a
widespread phenomenon, why it even occurs in *GASP!*
Canada! Certainly not definitive but one should take a look at
the Wikipedia entry on grade inflation (standard dis
The mean GPA for our psychology majors at Emory is around a 3.4. No wonder so
many of them become incensed at me when I give them Bs or even B pluses in
their classes; I'm lowering most of their grade point averages. ...Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Professor
Editor, Scientific Review of M
