AI Sends a Grades into Overdrive

ChatGPT 출시 이후 AI 활용이 가능한 과목에서 A학점 비율이 30% 증가하며 대학에서 성적 인플레이션 현상이 심화되고 있다. AI를 활용한 과제 제출이 늘면서 기존 C학점 학생도 A학점으로 올라가는 사례가 많아졌으며, 이는 숙제 비중이 높은 과목에서 두드러진다. 교수들은 AI 부정행위를 막기 위해 필기 시험이나 구두 시험을 도입하는 등 대응책을 마련 중이며, AI를 활용하되 적절히 문서화하는 과제 설계가 필요하다는 지적이 나온다.

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/16/ai-grade-inflation-college-classes

#ai #education #gradeinflation #chatgpt #academicintegrity

The ChatGPT era prompts a boom in A-graded coursework

Universities now must worry that graduates are leaving AI-proficient rather than knowledgeable about their subjects of study.

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Childhood and Education #18: Do the Math

최근 교육 연구에서 수학 교육의 심각한 문제점과 부정행위 사례가 드러났다. 특히 조 보일러의 연구는 데이터 조작과 부실한 평가로 비판받으며, 이로 인해 베이 지역 중학교에서 대수학 교육이 제거되는 결과를 낳았다. 또한, 학점 인플레이션과 표준화 시험 폐지로 인해 학생들의 실제 수학 능력과 성적 간 괴리가 커지고 있으며, 대학에서도 기초 수학 능력이 부족한 학생들이 많아 remedial math 수업 수요가 급증하고 있다. 이는 수학 교육 시스템 전반의 신뢰성과 효과성에 대한 근본적 재검토가 필요함을 시사한다.

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/childhood-and-education-18-do-the

#matheducation #educationresearch #gradeinflation #remedialmath #ucsd

Childhood and Education #18: Do The Math

We did reading yesterday.

Don't Worry About the Vase
Easy A’s, Less Pay: The Long-Term Effects of Grade Inflation https://www.nber.org/papers/w34952
"Being assigned a higher average grade inflating teacher reduces a student's future test scores, the likelihood of graduating from high school, college enrollment, and ultimately earnings. In contrast, passing grade inflation reduces the likelihood of being held back and increases high school graduation, with limited long-run effects. The cumulative impact is economically significant: a teacher with one standard deviation higher average #gradeInflation reduces the present discounted value of lifetime earnings of their students by $213,872 per year"
#LaborEcon #wages #Incentives
Easy A’s, Less Pay: The Long-Term Effects of Grade Inflation

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

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Just learned that grade inflation dates back at least to the post-war period
(i.e. LLMs are climax of a VERY long-lasting deterioration process)

- https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/3/barton-grade-inflation/
- https://gradeinflation.com/

#education #gradeinflation

Grade Inflation: What Goes Up Must Come Down | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

The damage of grade inflation has largely been done as there’s no hope of returning to a grading scheme where a C is average. But we can still resolve the growing threat of grade compression before it wreaks further havoc on Harvard’s education. Maybe it’s time for another “Committee on Raising the Standard” — 128 years later.

It's up to faculty to step up and create an environment that raises a bar, yes, but also exposes that bar and lifts up as many as possible to get over that bar. Higher ed is a ladder to the American dream, not a weed-out factory for those who have had a high school head start. Don't drop standards, but do widen the talent funnel and invest in the success of everyone who enters. #HigherEd #STEM #Education #GradeInflation #Tech #Employment (4/4)
Kommunala gymnasieskolors elever presterar bättre på universitetet – Tankesmedjan Balans

DEBATT: Trycket uppifrån gör att även elever med stora kunskapsluckor godkänns

Hela skolkonceptet med lärarledd klassundervisning utifrån en gemensam lärobok och kurser på en bestämd nivå överges, vilket i förlängningen leder till att lärare håller ”låtsaskurser” och delar ut ”låtsasbetyg.” Undervisningen anpassas efter eleven och eleven får ett godkänt betyg i en kurs hon i realiteten inte har klarat, skriver Filippa Mannerheim.

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Strannegårds antagningsprov och när en cirkel sluts

Handelshögskolans rektor Lars Strannegårds ord om att det svenska betygssystemet har blivit så korrumperat att denna privata stiftelsedrivna skola överväger att införa antagningsprov är egentligen inget nytt. Men att denna ekonomihögskola gör det, som varit svensk ”pappa” till många av de nyliberala idéer, typ vinstdrivande välfärdsföretag, innebär att en cirkel är på väg att slutas. Det skriver Realtids Per Lindvall.

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Elever med höga betyg kan välja och vraka – resten pratar vi inte om

I Lund kommer elever med snittbetyg inte in på kommunala gymnasieskolor. I norra Sverige får de unga betalt om de pluggar på hemmaplan.

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- idea of forcing distribution is to avoid “ #gradeinflation ” and force managers to have honest conversations with people who are sub-par.