Grading Trends Analysis Bibliography

 

This is an electronic bibliography from the Report by the Teaching Effectiveness Committee: Grading Trends Analysis Fall 1999 to Spring 2009. The report is not available online. Faculty may contact Richard Mechaber for information on obtaining a copy. 

• Bradley Toben, What Should our Students Justifiably Expect of us as Teachers, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 221 (2001) [HeinOnline]

• Robert C. Downs & Nancy Levit, If it Can't be Lake Woebegone. . .A Nationawide Survey of Law School Grading and Grade Normalization Practices, 65 UMKC L. Rev. 819 (1997) [HeinOnline]

• Steve H. Nickles, Examining and Grading in American Law Schools, 30 Ark. L. Rev. 411 (1977) [HeinOnline]

• Richard Epstein, Grade Normalization, 44 S. Cal. L. Rev. 707 (1971) [HeinOnline]

• Jonathan S. Green, Grade Curves Matter Only so Much, so Don’t Worry, Student Law., Jan 2004, at 14. [HeinOnline]

• Vesna Jaksic, Law Schools Tweak Grading Policies to Improve Fairness, 241 N.Y.L.J. 6 (2009) [Westlaw]

• Ruthann Robson, The Zen of Grading, 36 Akron L. Rev. 303 (2003) [HeinOnline]

• Barbara Glesner Fines, Competition and the Curve, 65 UMKC L. Rev. 879 (1997) [HeinOnline]

• Deidre Shesgreen, The Rising (Grade) Inflation Rate, Legal Times, July 29, 1996 at 7/29/1996 Legal Times 2 [Westlaw]

• Christian C. Day, Law Schools Can Solve the “Bar Pass Problem” – Do the Work!, 40 Cal. W. L. Rev. 321 (2004) [HeinOnline]

• Alfie Kohn, The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation (2004) [Web]