TY - JOUR
T1 - The relationship between grading leniency and grading reliability
AU - Millet, Ido
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/9/2
Y1 - 2018/9/2
N2 - Grading reliability for a class can be measured as the correlation between the students’ grade point average (GPA) and the grades they received in that class. Grading leniency can be measured as the difference between the average grade for the class and the students’ average GPA. Data from more than fifty-thousand course sections show that lenient grading is associated with lower grading reliability. This association is particularly strong among course sections with lenient grading. Although grading leniency may be a symptom rather than a cause of low-grading reliability, reducing grading leniency may lead to improved grading reliability.
AB - Grading reliability for a class can be measured as the correlation between the students’ grade point average (GPA) and the grades they received in that class. Grading leniency can be measured as the difference between the average grade for the class and the students’ average GPA. Data from more than fifty-thousand course sections show that lenient grading is associated with lower grading reliability. This association is particularly strong among course sections with lenient grading. Although grading leniency may be a symptom rather than a cause of low-grading reliability, reducing grading leniency may lead to improved grading reliability.
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U2 - 10.1080/03075079.2016.1265497
DO - 10.1080/03075079.2016.1265497
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85003794621
SN - 0307-5079
VL - 43
SP - 1524
EP - 1535
JO - Studies in Higher Education
JF - Studies in Higher Education
IS - 9
ER -