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Artful equivocations are even worse; Iynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our Iynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or...
But despite the "call" Mansfield and other professors interviewed yesterday were less sure if the letter will have a long term effect on grading policy.
The problems of high grading finally take theirtoll on students, Brustein said, when they receivetheir final assessments on the morestrictly-graded honors essays.
For at least the past decade, faculty membershave received a yearly printout showinginflationary trends in student grading.
Instead, he suggested putting on the transcriptthe Course Grading Index, a figure computed by theOffice of Instructional Research and Evaluationfor every undergraduate course. The index comparesthe students' course performance with theiroverall performance at Harvard.