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Royal, Kenneth D.; Guskey, Thomas R. – Online Submission, 2014
A common practice in medical education is to create a prescribed distribution of grades, or ratings, so that only a certain percentage of students receive the highest marks. This approach typically is employed to curb grade inflation and as a means to help faculty distinguish outstanding performers. Despite the well-intentioned reasoning for using…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Grading, Medical Education, Grade Inflation
Guskey, Thomas R. – Educational Horizons, 2007
Many school leaders today, not to mention many teachers, view "accountability" as a loathsome political monster. Looming over educators, insensitive to the many problems they face, it wields the carrot of rewards in one hand and the club of sanctions in the other. Some educators even blame accountability for perverting their noble…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Accountability, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Guskey, Thomas R. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2007
The problem of achievement gaps among different subgroups of students has been evident in education for many years. This manuscript revisits the work of renowned educator Benjamin S. Bloom, who saw reducing gaps in the achievement of various groups of students as a simple problem of reducing variation in student learning outcomes. Bloom observed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mastery Learning, Teaching Methods, Achievement Gains