What are your concerns/challenges regarding academic rigor and grade inflation? by Student Learning Services

2025-05-01 19:51:37 UTC

Grades not reflecting actual student growth

2025-05-01 19:51:41 UTC

If you reduce the workload of a course then students will just pick up another course, more shifts at work etc and then complain the workload of the new course is too high. It’s not their fault that they can’t prioritize the degree due to systemic issues but also it’s not my fault they have to know enough to be successful in later courses

2025-05-01 19:51:58 UTC

MRU grade schemes is highly skewed to A

2025-05-01 19:52:33 UTC

Lack of consistency across course sections, departments, and disciplines. I wonder if this may cause additional and unnecessary stress on students because they don't know what to expect.

2025-05-01 19:53:11 UTC

Student grades as a reflection on your ability to teach the content?

2025-05-01 19:54:04 UTC

Challenge for MRU specific actions is that, for external purposes, grades are comparative to other institutions

2025-05-01 19:54:22 UTC

I have a hard time navigating the intense anxiety students express over often average grades—it can result in what feels like unintentional emotional blackmail where their life is in my hands

2025-05-01 19:54:32 UTC

Discussions at MRU about grade inflation without evidence that demonstrates that this is an issue. What is the extent of the problem/inflation?

2025-05-01 19:59:06 UTC

The grade breakdown big issue huge gap for A, 20%\/B,10%/C, 10% ect…

2025-05-01 19:59:52 UTC

Discomfort of passing and adjusting grades

2025-05-01 20:02:26 UTC

Why are councillors, student learning services and SAMRU advocates not reporting the stats back to departments to be accountable to concerns (based on each of their areas of expertise)?

2025-05-01 20:03:15 UTC

High expectations: Student's perception of my grading based on Rate my professor and expecting a high grade before they enroll

2025-05-01 20:03:27 UTC

Rubrics are difficult to create well because you may assess an assignment based on the rubric, but they don't land where you think they should be, so now you're fudging it.

2025-05-01 20:10:05 UTC

Trying to divide up 100% in block intensive courses is too much work for students and faculty. We need to get past this way of thinking, along with bell curve mentality.

2025-05-01 20:12:54 UTC

Nobody taught us how to assess. Have discussions about what good assessment could look like.

2025-05-01 20:13:15 UTC

Shorten the A range!! It's far too big.

2025-05-01 20:13:23 UTC

Grade equivalency across multi- section courses

2025-05-01 20:15:23 UTC

Revisit grade scale, reconsider why having As is bad, pd on how to grade

2025-05-01 20:17:52 UTC

Ungrading feasible…

2025-05-01 20:18:28 UTC

We need to have different questions and conversations to navigate the shifting paradigms we are living.