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Grade inflation versus grade improvement: Are our students getting more intelligent?

Overview of attention for article published in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, August 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#31 of 1,051)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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5 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
42 X users

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74 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Grade inflation versus grade improvement: Are our students getting more intelligent?
Published in
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, August 2020
DOI 10.1080/02602938.2020.1795617
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 74 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Lecturer 5 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 5%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 4%
Other 11 15%
Unknown 35 47%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 16 22%
Linguistics 3 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 4%
Psychology 3 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 37 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 76. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 March 2024.
All research outputs
#716,972
of 34,378,656 outputs
Outputs from Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
#31
of 1,051 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,983
of 453,364 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
#2
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,378,656 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,051 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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