grade inflation

grade inflation
A gradual upward trend in grades awarded to students during the decades since the mid-20th century, reported in a number of countries and at a number of levels of schooling and sometimes offered as evidence of a decline in academic standards.

Grade inflation refers to an increase in grade point average without a concomitant increase in achievement.


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