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Undergraduates and their parents have the right to be furious with Harvard College. We pay a staggering sum for what is supposed to be the best college education in the country. But the shortage of faculty and graduate-student section leaders has led the administration to look the other way...
As for the humanities, the social sciences and the Core, no argument is strong enough to justify undergraduates either grading essays or teaching sections. The Educational Policy Committee (EPC) recognizes this in a passage on page 22 of the 1998-1999 Information for Faculty Offering Instruction in the Arts and...
Last spring, Professor Stephen Jay Gould hired two seniors to lead sections in his overcrowded Core course, Science B-16, "The History of Life." Both of these students were responsible for leading discussions, grading homework, grading the 15 page term papers and participating in the collective grading of the final...
"One sees that grades are not that strong anindex, because, one, there is more variability ingrades than there are in test scores, and two,more compelling, is that the grading scale is atbest, from 1 to 5. This varies from field tofield, so, basically, the [LSAT] can distinguishmore subtle differences...
From first-grade teachers to overworked TFs, grading student essays consumes a huge portion of instructors' time. Multiple-choice tests and oral exams are imperfect solutions to the problem, and students' writing skills go untried.