Word: gradinger
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In addition to making average grades public, the CUE has also suggested filling in the gaps in the College's grading scale.
Feldman says neither of these proposals are seen as solutions to grade inflation, although creating a new grade might combat grade compression--which is when professors have fewer grading options to distinguish between students at the top of the spectrum.
But professors in the sciences, where the grading is more objective, favor a linear scale which would not contain a gap between an A- and B+. "I certainly don't think we need three grades between an A and a B," says James E. Davis, lecturer on chemistry and instructor...
But Buell says, "The CUE was uncomfortable with transcript amplification and wanted to give the wider issue of grading policy full hearing."
First, approximately half the departments supported transcript amplification. Second, most of the departments said something should be done about the gaps between B+ and A- and between C+ and B- in Harvard's grading scale, Buell says.