Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggest, however, that in the last paragraph, which proposes an increase in the number of readers so that "the paper could be returned in time for the student to make any justified complaints before his grade is turned in," that you are perhaps laying faulty emphasis. If you admit that the primary purpose of the exam should, in theory at least, be increased learning, then the primary purpose of returning the exam to the student is to give him constructive criticism, and not to achieve a meeting of the minds between student and greater on what a fair mark should...
...first time since the end of the war, veterans in the Freshman class are dragging down the class grade record, instead of bolstering...
There has been considerable complaint from instructors on the poor quality of writing in exams. Little effort is made on their part to improve that standard, however. A few course heads have taken the trouble to permit the Student to see his exam before the grade has been recorded with the Registrar. But more have discouraged the student from doing so. In theory, the recording of grades before hearing complaints avoids a lot of trouble for the instructor, since the red tape involved in any change thereafter is virtually prohibitive. In practice, more careful grading and commenting on papers would...
...chief reason for the present lack of personal attention is caused by the excessive burden on the readers. In many courses, the instructor carries more than his share by grading graduate papers. The undergraduate burden, therefore, falls chiefly on the assistants, with an average of a little less than 100 papers per course. Since the Registrar's Office requires grades one week after the examination has been held, there is little opportunity for correcting papers thoroughly and in time for the students to see them. Fifteen minutes per paper is a generous estimate, for this amounts to a 25-hour...
...case of the February exams. The number of readers should be increased so that more attention can be paid to each paper and so that the process can be speeded up. The paper could thus be returned in time for the student to make any justified complaints before his grade is handed in. No increase in cost would he involved, since most departments pay their readers per paper. The instructive value of the mid-year exam would increase to fill the place of the hour exam, and many of the irregularities of the grading system would be removed...