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One way student grades may be inflated is that weaker students ride the coat-tails of better students in group work. To take one recent example, a management instructor had assigned a project worth 45% of the course and provided classtime for group meetings from time to time throughout the semester to ensure that group members could collaborate effectively. The day before the assignment came due, however, one of the students emailed the classlist: "Hi, my name is ______. Does anyone know what group I'm in?" Clearly, this student expected to sign his name to a group project to which he had not contributed and benefit from the group's grade. (Apparently the student was unaware that the classlist included the professor or that signing one's name to a project to which one has not contributed significantly constitutes academic misconduct (plagiarism) at the University of Lethbridge.... )
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