Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...applicant need not enter as a freshman as the Admissions Office will determine the grade level for which she qualifies...
...damn sure that no man's ghost will ever say, 'If your training program had only done its job.'" And McKeon saw disturbing signs in Platoon 71. "There are still men in this platoon," he fretted, "that could not have made the grade in Korea...
Student Counsel. In Pasadena, City College Freshman Edward Mulrooney was arrested after he tossed a bomb at his psychology teacher's house, damaged the front porch, left a note: "If you don't want your home bombed or your windows shot out, then grade fairly and put your assignments on the board-or is this asking too much...
...rewarding the unusually intelligent student who has no desire to spend a good part of his senior year on a narrowly defined project. Seemingly, the reward of getting A's should be enough for those who do not wish to continue in the academic life, and if a grade transcript is not enough for the exceptional, a Phi Beta Kappa key would sufficiently represent to society one's undergraduate achievements. Honors in General Studies, merely as a reward for high grades, is a perversion of the Honors degree, and can become a too easy escape from a thesis rather than...
...this greater amount of material to which course instructors object. Papers are more difficult to grade than hour exams because of their length and because their higher thought content requires more careful deliberation from the grader. This, however, is not a valid argument against having more papers in courses. If the college considers papers to be a really valuable stimulus to education, it must hire more graduate students to perform the drudgery of grading. In this way, it will develop the ability to work out a problem thoroughly instead of the now prevalent hour exam spirit of gamesmanship...