Society for A Return to Academic Standards

Objective:

Provide information and support for a return to academic standards in higher education. The widespread use of the student evaluation of teaching (SET) data as a control device has caused grade inflation and course work devaluation. SFRTAS encourages research on faculty pander pollution, dysfunctional aspects of SETs, misuse of SET data by administrators, dishonesty of students on SETs, invalidity of SET information, denial of due process from use of SET, defamation, impression management, post-tenure reviews, disappearing tenure, and reasons for grade inflation

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Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors Evaluating Students’ Evaluations of Professors  Spoon-feeding Students  Miscellaneous Research Misplaced Sense of Entitlement Should West Virginia University Become a Learning Centered Institution Rather Than A Party School? What Is Ethical About Grade Inflation and Coursework Deflation? Queen Bee or Responsible Academic? A Professor at Louisiana State is Flunked Because of Her Grades Rating Your Professors: Scholars Test Improved Course Evaluations Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum (TLC) Monograph Numerically Scored = Grade Inflation A&M Bases Bonus on Student Input Judgment Day  College Daze  60% Honors Awards   Other Ammunition   Grade Inflation Inflates Faculty Evaluations Point of View Deliberate Dumbing Down  Tough-Love Manifesto  Ohio U. Punishes 2 Professors Who Approved Plagiarized Theses  Student Evaluations, Grades, and the Internet  New Questions on Student Evaluations  Fort Valley State U. Reaches Settlement ... Letter to Ann Landers Responses to Ann Landers Student Dishonesty: The Inventory Low Marks for Top Teachers Dysfunctional Behavior Article Higher Grades = Higher Evaluations State Legislators Must Act Promptly Baker's Dozen Debating Arguments Evolution of Teaching Business Challenge Student Evaluations Evolution of Teaching Math Devalued Diplomas Due Process/Defamation Issues The Most Docile Profession Your Faculty Senate at Work Suggested Faculty Senate Proposals More Ammunition False Advertising Crude Approach for Correcting for Grading Bias in Higher Education Broccoli and Cotton Candy Tenured Weasels Disappearance of Tenure Witch hunt Student-Directed Lawsuits   What's in a Name ?	Attacks on Tenure     Steps to Do Public Higher Education and Productivity      Open Letter to the American Accounting Association   Migrant Labor Specific Numerical Guidelines Proving Their Mettle  Tenure Remains Vital to Freedom   We Talk about Tenure   Little Rock Chapter (Grade Inflation) Fire at Will U.  National Association of Scholars Students With Less Class   Other Sources Teachers Must Dance to Students' Tune   Abolish Tenure ?   Teaching or Cheating?   Cheating Students?   Grandfather Education   Don't Be Politically Incorrect and Hard Adprima   Other viewpoints   SETS Are Too Costly   Deconstructing an Evaluation Form    Let Me Edutain You    The Deflated College Degree    IDEA : Bias Higher Than Previously Said  The Validity of Student Ratings Interpretations Senator Ratliff's Modest Proposal Some Humor About Student Evaluations  Obstacles and Hope Grading Policy Generation X Goes to College   Guerrilla Teaching Tactics  Judge Backs Professors  Students Who Don't Study Correspondence Flunking the test... Students Rating Teachers Is Idiocy College Freshmen Study Less Customers vs. Products Abolish Teaching Evaluations Temple Fires Tenured Professors Grades Row At Harvard Anti-SET Teacher Illiterate Until Age 48
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