Dr. Zsembik has been teaching at the university for 25 years. She has used the same tests and assignments for her entire time at the university. The average grade in Dr. Zsembik's sociology class was a 73 in 1998, but the average grade was an 84 in 2008. This trend of assigning higher grades than previously assigned to students for completing the same work is called:

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This trend is known as grade inflation, which refers to the phenomenon of grades increasing over time without a corresponding increase in learning or achievement.

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