Grading Leniency Is a Removable Contaminant of Student Ratings.

Greenwald, Anthony G.; Gillmore, Gerald M.

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ERIC Number: EJ580857

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Publication Date: 1997

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Grading Leniency Is a Removable Contaminant of Student Ratings.

Greenwald, Anthony G.; Gillmore, Gerald M.

American Psychologist, v52 n11 p1209-17 Nov 1997

Identifies four additional data patterns that discriminate among five theories of students' expected grades/teacher ratings correlation. The presence of all four of these markers in student ratings data is consistent with the theory that the correlation is due to an unwanted influence of instructors' grading leniency. (MMU)

Descriptors: Correlation, Grade Inflation, Grades (Scholastic), Higher Education, Statistical Analysis, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Effectiveness, Test Validity

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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