Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday considered a proposal that essentially would combat grade inflation by including with each student's grade on his transcript the number of students enrolled in the course and the median grade...
Pipkin explained that while the information would be useful in gauging a student's performance in a large course such as Chemistry 20. "Organic Chemistry," the median grade in courses with very few people may not be representative...
...While we hope this could renormalize the grade curve, the information may be overinterpreted by graduate schools," Pipkin said...
...Obviously there is abuse in the grading system," Sherlock said. "Students choose courses to a certain extent on the basis of grades they can get in them. Unfortunately, the proposal gives no understanding of what went into each grade and how hard a student works...
...students in my section of Government 98 were chosen for an expressed interest in political theory and for having received high grades in courses where a high grade is a mark of distinction. I am therefore guilty of elitism, but not of favoritism...