Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stampede in India. Here I thought was the longed for material for my verse, so I wrote up the incident in the required ponderous style and sent it in. TIME proved to be my lifesaver, at any rate it seemed to please the Professor. ... I received a gratifying grade for the assignment. So thanks for TIME, we look forward to its coming each week, it is just a little different from all the other periodicals...
...such courses as Biology A, Chemistry A, and French 2 the cumulative theory tends to fix the Midyear grade as the April mark which goes into the office. For instance, a man receiving a C at Midyear's must get an A or an E in the April examination in order to change his standing in the Dean's Office. This situation destroys, in a large measure, the value of the April records as an index of a student's progress, and relegates the examinations to a mere breaking up of the term's work and a routine check...
...abuses of cumulative grading are two-fold. A man working to have his probation relieved at April with four B's must actually bring his grade not up to B, but to A in order that he may have a B in the office. In other words the Midyear grade turns out to be a halter about the neck of the man who would reasonably better his standing. Conversely, the system enables a man in good standing at Midyears to slide his spring work down to D without any evident loss...
Cumulative marking to accomplish its desired aims should be an average made at the end of the year. Only this way can the full credit be given for each day's work. But in such courses as make the April grade dependent on Midyear standing the April examinations are functionless red tape...
...Italian for admission, must now turn to elementary French or German or both to keep himself from language pro, instead of continuing the study of a literature in which he has been interested and whose least stimulating phase he has surmounted. In this way admission, depending on a certain grade in the language College Boards, should pass off all language requirements...