Wake Forest Study: Awarding Higher Grades Means Higher Retention For Female Instructors

A new study, Under pressure: How faculty gender and contract uncertainty impact students’ grades by Wake Forest University Associate Professor of Economics Amanda Griffith and her co-researcher Veronica Sovero from San Francisco State University looks at how grade inflation may be more likely in classes taught by female adjunct instructors and non-tenured professors.

Using data from a large, public research university, the team looked for incentives to award high grades that might be linked to both gender and contract status.

https://news.wfu.edu/2021/06/15/new-study-looks-at-gender-teaching-contracts-and-grade-inflation/