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Novak, Judit; Carlbaum, Sara – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
Since 2009, the Swedish Government uses an "audit" agency--the Swedish Schools Inspectorate--to monitor and assess the accuracy with which teachers grade student responses on national tests. This study explores the introduction and subsequent establishment of the Inspectorate's regrading programme as an example of political management of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accuracy, Grading, National Competency Tests
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Boretz, Elizabeth – College Teaching, 2004
The widespread acceptance of the phrase "grade inflation" poses a potentially damaging overstatement in reference to higher education. Grades are at an all-time high, but a review of the literature demonstrates that the improvement is not incongruous with a rise in faculty development programs and increased varieties of student support services.…
Descriptors: Grading, Consumer Economics, Grade Inflation, Higher Education
Elliot, Charles – AECT-RTD Newsletter, 1988
A series of research studies were examined to investigate the relative effectiveness of teaching evaluations at the college level. The six research variables considered are: teaching effectiveness and its relationship to research productivity; grades given and the relationship to teaching effectiveness evaluation; immediately administered…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality