The Distorted Grade Distribution: Inflating Grades Post the 1980s

Faculty give grades to provide rewards, punishments, and reflections of academic performance students. However, there are plainly other motivations at work as well. Average in American colleges universities have been rising since the 1960s. Most agree that significant grade inflation United States began 1960s due Vietnam War, stabilized 1970s. Inflating somehow resumed mid-1980s seems be no end sight. We contend motivational mechanisms behind inflating years post very different from pre mid- 1980s. The higher education sector experienced a paradigm shift 1980s when market-oriented approach was introduced sector. Many corporate-world practices adopted. believe production function framework human behavior model insufficient understand grades. Instead, conventional Principal-Agent Theory can conceptualize incentive system stimulates inflationary grading practice.