Word: gradinger
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"HBS is not a low-stress environment, especially after college. There's not a lot of direct support, either--you have to book your own faculty appointments, and grading is largely determined by the final exam," says Joshua B. Marks '97, an HBS second-year. "With 1,600 students, HBS...
After yet another Spanish A class where you get fed up with being the only person who isn't actually a native speaker, it may be time to head over to the Freshmen Dean's or Senior Tutor's Office and, to use a Springerism, kick that course to the...
But the deans cannot have it both ways. Peer undergraduate grading cannot be viewed as "wrong and inappropriate" on the one hand and be allowed to occur on the other.
The issue here is not just whether the final grade given is ultimately the right one. Grading is by its nature imperfect. Something much more important is at stake: the quality of undergraduate education at Harvard. William Mills Todd III, the dean of undergraduate education, agrees. When I asked him...
From this senior's perspective, the undergraduate experience will continue to be compromised as long as the practice of peer grading of subjective work continues. It Is time for the Faculty to legislate on this issue. Our education has suffered long enough.