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...Educational Policy Committee (EPC), a Faculty committee that advises the Dean of the Faculty on issues of undergraduate education, began its most recent review of Harvard’s grading procedures last spring...
Such discrepancies raised pedagogical concern among the EPC that student motivation suffered from grading ambiguities and the compression of the grading scale...
...proposal—which was recommended by the EPC but not adopted by the Faculty Council, the body that discusses policy changes before they go to a vote before the full Faculty—was for an “enhanced transcript” that would allow students and the outside world to better interpret Harvard grades...
According to the report, “The full EPC was less persuaded than the subcommittee of the specific advantages of including this particular information on the transcript...
...Once the EPC subcommittee started talking about grades we thought we could do more to address the idiosyncrasies and transparency of the system—that seemed the more important part of the debate,” she said...