Word: gradinger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because each Expos class appears to have different standards for assignment difficulty and grading, students often wonder if the Expos program issues overarching guidelines to preceptors.
Pat Cain, the head of Expos 10 who also teaches an Expos 20 course called "Law and Society," says the Expos program has grading meetings for new preceptors at which the group analyzes anonymous student essays.
"The purpose is to standardize as much as possible the grading values," Cain says. "For one thing, different assignments in different classes will demand different standards. There will always be some degree of subjectivity."
"The number of niches on the Harvard grading scale that Faculty regularly use and...students consider honorable has been shrinking," Buell says.
If the final exam is automatically skewed, then it is simply not a good final indicator for a class. The final exam should be weighted less than 50 percent; it is not a good enough indicator to determine so much of a final grade. The other parts of the class...