| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28710 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28710 |
| Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? An Analysis of Rising Grades | |
| Jeffrey T. Denning; Eric R. Eide; Kevin Mumford; Richard W. Patterson; Merrill Warnick | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-04-26 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | College completion rates declined from the 1970s to the 1990s. We document that this trend has reversed--since the 1990s, college completion rates have increased. We investigate the reasons for the increase in college graduation rates. Collectively, student characteristics, institutional resources, and institution attended do not explain much of the change. However, we show that grade inflation can explain much of the change in graduation rates. We show that GPA is a strong predictor of graduation rates and that GPAs have been rising since the 1990s. We also find that in national survey data and rich administrative data from 9 large public universities increases in college GPAs cannot be explained by student demographics, preparation, and school factors. Further, we find that at a public liberal arts college, grades have increased over time conditional on final exam performance. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28710 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586383 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jeffrey T. Denning,Eric R. Eide,Kevin Mumford,et al. Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? An Analysis of Rising Grades. 2021. |
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