Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bored. As if the figures were not bad enough, the Feaster Report has some bitter words to say about pupil and teacher attitudes. "Regardless of the types of schools the pupils have come up through, however much interest in learning a very significant proportion (36%) of them had in grades six and eight is completely, or almost completely, gone by the twelfth grade . . . When more than three out of every four seniors in four large high schools call schooling exasperating and tedious, the situation is too serious to be laughed...
...tutor, who preferred to remain anonymous, said, "I would prefer to read typed exams." He lamented that under the present system, 10 to 15 per cent of the exams he must grade are illegibly written, and consequently suffer lower grades...
...certain to be deforming-many scoliosis cases have two curves, one right and one left like a letter S, which cancel each other out and leave a good balance, with no worse effect than a shortening of the trunk. And Margie's case was severe. Special Surgery doctors grade cases by a technique developed by one of their leading scoliosis specialists. Dr. John R. Cobb; with a protractor, applied to the top and bottom vertebrae of the curve on the X ray, they measure the total deviation from a straight line. Up to 30° is rated mild, rarely...
...doubly sure of holding the shape, they affixed a curved iron bar to serve as a flying buttress on the right side. By this time they were about ready for a tricky piece of surgery they call "fishing through the ice." Last week they interrupted Margie's eighth-grade studies (a New York City schoolteacher keeps children in the hospital plugging at their work), used an instrument like poultry shears to cut a rectangular hole in the back of the cast, over the spot where the curve had been sharpest. More X rays showed the new position...
While the report contains no proposals, it implies that Departments with multiple requirements make their grade requirement too stringent to produce a more representative number of highest honors recommendations...