Word: graded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of a Mansfield policy partially intended to curb grade inflation, teaching fellows for sophomore and junior tutorials must submit to the department for review all student papers to which they give A, A-, or below B- grades...
Mansfield, who said Verba's selection "was very widely approved" by the members of the department, added that under him the Government Department has done all it can do at the department level to stop grade inflation and that now it is up to the University...
Another reason we oppose the adoption of the relative transcript is that it will cause a decrease in the overall grade point average. Relative transcripts will create a focus upon each faculty member's grading policy, which will lead to considerable pressure on faculty, especially those in non-tenured positions, to lower their grades. Were this proposal implemented at your school, Harvard graduates would find themselves at a greater disadvantage when competing for jobs or entrance to graduate school because their grades had declined, while grades at other institutions remained at current levels...
Fourth, the median grade may not adequately reflect the academic quality of a course. A high median grade does not necessarily mean that a course was very easy and thus of little academic merit. It could be that the course was taken by many students who had a strong background in the field, or that a professor was succesful in having many students master the material...
...have not received a Valentine's Day card since the sixth grade, when everyone sent one to everyone else...