Grade inflation rates among different ability students, controlling for other factors

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 7, Issue , 1999, Pages

  Mc Spirit, Stephanie ^a,b,c,d   Jones, Kirk E ^a,c,d,e  

^a EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Department of Sociology ^*

^d EKU Fac Sen Ad Hoc Comm Grade I   (United States)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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