Power and the Morality of Grading - A Case Study and a Few Critical Thoughts on Grade Normalization
42 Pages Posted: 23 Nov 2013
Date Written: 1997
Abstract
This article is a contribution to a 1997 symposium about the controversy surrounding grade normalization. The author contends that, rather than using grading as an educational tool to improve teaching and learning, law schools act as political institutions replicating a system in which resources are allocated in an irrational or unfair way and serve as instruments of oppression.
Keywords: grade normalization, strict statistical curve, grading, law school, educational theory, assessment
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Post, Deborah W., Power and the Morality of Grading - A Case Study and a Few Critical Thoughts on Grade Normalization (1997). University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Vol. 65, p. 777, 1997, Touro Law Center Legal Studies Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2354604
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