Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first proposal is an addition of the A/B grade that would correspond to the unused 13 on the 15-point grade scale. The second is adding class size and average grade to student transcripts...
Carl B. Agee, associate professor of experimental petrology, called the current grade point system "silly" and said that it should be amended to make the scale linear...
...their first meeting of the year yesterday, members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) discussed two proposals for dealing with grade inflation...
Several CUE members said they feared adding an A/B grade could increase the problem of grade inflation, saying problem of grade inflation, saying professors might not give B-pluses anymore...
...best results come from long-term programs with intensive (that usually means expensive) services that guide a child into adulthood. Richard Majors, co-author of the study, says; "Our research shows that young men who go through mentor programs and manhood-training programs have higher self-esteem and grade-point averages and are less likely to drop out of school...