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via David Carless on Twitter 3 important points raised: Grading principles are under-examined by institutions and even the literature. Getting students to understand the standards set requires that they pretty much go through what we do in a standardisation exercise with teachers. Grade rationing (marking on a "curve") is unfair and doesn't support student learning. It's the easy, lazy way to tackle grade inflation.

"It is not a symbol of rigor to have grades fall into a 'normal' distribution; rather, it is a symbol of failure: failure to teach well, to test well, and to have any influence at all on the intellectual lives of students" (Milton et al. 1986, p. 225).