ACHIEVEMENT AS A FUNCTION OF ASSIGNED GRADES

Authors

  • Arthur G. Storey University of Calgary
  • George H. Desson University of Calgary

Abstract

This comparative study used as its subjects two matched groups of Grade VIII students whose science achievement placed them between the 10th and 35th percentile. The experimental subjects received science grades inflated by 20 per cent of earned grades on ten successive bi-monthly science tests. These subjects showed a significantly greater gain in actual science achievement over the five-month duration of the experiment than did the control subjects.

Author Biographies

Arthur G. Storey, University of Calgary

ARTHUR G. STOREY, Ph.D. Stanford, who is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Calgary, has published more than twenty research papers. He also received the Ryerson Press Fiction Award for his novel Prairie Harvest (1959).

George H. Desson, University of Calgary

GEORGE H. DESSON, Assistant Principal of Western High School, Calgary, is currently undertaking graduate studies and research in Education at the University of Calgary

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Published

1967-04-01

How to Cite

Storey, A. G., & Desson, G. H. (1967). ACHIEVEMENT AS A FUNCTION OF ASSIGNED GRADES. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 2(001). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/6595

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 001 (1967)

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