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...Last year, in an attempt to provide students with more accurate feedback as to where they stood in his class, “C-minus” gave each student two grades: one to reflect the inevitably substandard quality of his work and another higher grade to comfortably pad his transcript. This year, in an attempt to give employers and grad schools more accurate feedback as to where students stood in Harvard classes, the ECP recommended giving two evaluations on each student’s transcript: a grade to reflect the (supposed) quality of his work, and the percentage...
...Both approaches encourage befuddlement and second-guessing (perhaps something stodgy academics and former government bureaucrats deem laudable) but neither provides feedback of any real sort. The student with two grades on his paper guesses he needs improvement but doesn’t now how to improve (because there is no need, of course, to encourage TFs to provide substantive qualitative remarks or to encourage professors to interact more with students). Likewise, the employer with two numbers on a student’s transcript guesses that student didn’t have to work hard for that common seminar...
Additionally, Rosenthal said UHS is constantly using student feedback to determine how to improve its offerings. The results of its latest mental health survey should arrive over the summer...
...having some tomato sauce in it. Without it, it was a little too giant-cheese-sandwich-y.” The truly accommodating reply read, “Please feel free to ask for a side of sauce. We would be happy to supply it! Thank you for the feedback...
...performance, which will decrease the overall accuracy of grades both to students and to others reading their transcripts. By specifically eliminating the lower grades, professors would be forced to send less informative messages to the more poorly performing students—those who could benefit most from constructive feedback on their work...