Word: gradinger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suppose that when you receive your next set of grades, instead of getting an A- or a B+, you receive a A-/B+--a hybrid grade which corresponds to the number 13 on Harvard's 15-point grading scale.
Although Mansfield's statements were for the most part rejected by scholars and disproved by administrators who said grades rose on average before the increase in black admissions, the reawakening of the debate has led the Faculty to try to reform the College's grading system.
According to CUE Chair and Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell, it is finally time to put the controversy over grading to rest.
What does this mean? Perhaps that a 14-point A- does not contain seven-sixths as many points on a 100-point grading scale as a 12-point B+? The average A- is a 91; the average B+ is an 88. We have to normalize the scales, since an F...
Clearly, some CUE members have not considered the intracacies of the grading process. Until the fundamental disparities discussed above are eradicated, no grading system will satisfy the CUE's lofty if misconceived ideals.