<P> Grade inflation is used in two senses: (1) grading leniency: the awarding of higher grades than students deserve, which yields a higher average grade given to students (2) the tendency to award progressively higher academic grades for work that would have received lower grades in the past . </P> <P> This article is about grade inflation in the second sense . Higher grades in themselves do not prove grade inflation and many believe there is no such problem . It is also necessary to demonstrate that the grades are not deserved . </P>

What term refers to higher grades given for the same work