Grading Standards and Education Quality

Quality Standards in Education

Quality, Standards and Globalization in Higher Education

Higher education, science, and technology have always been international endeavors, but have acquired new dimensions and features in recent years. This paper describe these features in terms of some key characteristics of American higher education – general education at the undergraduate level, organized graduate schools, and the expansion of the private sector. As these features spread through...

University Competition, Grading Standards and Grade Inflation

We develop a model of strategic grade determination by universities distinguished by their distributions of student academic abilities. Universities choose grading standards to maximize total wages of graduates. Job placement and wages hinge on a firm’s productivity assessment given a student’s university, grade and productivity signal. We identify conditions under which better universities set...

Grading, Minimum Quality Standards, and the Labeling of Genetically Modified Products

In this paper we relate the economics of labeling genetically modified (GM) products to the theory of grading and minimum quality standards. The model represents three stages in the supply chain (farm production, marketing handlers, and final users) and allows explicitly for the accidental co-mingling of non-GM products at the marketing stage. Regulation takes the form of a threshold level of p...

Quality standards for predialysis education: results from a consensus conference

This position statement was compiled following an expert meeting in March 2013, Zurich, Switzerland. Attendees were invited from a spread of European renal units with established and respected renal replacement therapy option education programmes. Discussions centred around optimal ways of creating an education team, setting realistic and meaningful objectives for patient education, and assessi...