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Grades are also used to fill informational needs within the university. Students use grades to obtain feedback from their instructors on performance in class. Faculty members use grades from previous courses use grades from previous courses as guidelines for admitting students to their own course. The administration uses grades in allocating financial aid. Although we object to this last use of grades we do feel that information on student performance can be useful both to the student and to the teacher in the education process. The use of a summary letter grade is simply not the best means for fulfilling...
...written evaluation of each student's work. The evaluation will be available to the student and to others if the student so requests. Further, we plan to arrange individual meetings between student and instructor during the semester. Finally, the organization of the course into small sections automatically provides continuous feedback to the students...
...study at the University of Wisconsin Law School, in which the general problems encountered by first-year students were explored, discovered that this lack of feedback was a major cause of student frustration. "This initial fear of failure was intensified as the semester progressed because the first year student was unable to get feedback. . . . This intensified fear of failure interfered with the student's ability to succeed. It caused the student to rely on false feedback, encouraged ineffective study, inhibited informal education available by contacts with student colleagues and professors, and most importantly, interfered with actual academic success...
...Create a system of feedback which will provide substantially more information on our progress without the awesome penalties which now exist...
Finally, consistent feedback would remove a student's nagging doubts about how well he was doing, and allow him to devote more energy to learning legal skills. Evaluation would no longer serve as a punishing judgment which offers no help in the first year and discourages work thereafter...