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Accurate interdepartmental comparisons can be achieved rather simply. To compare, for example, the Economics grading policy with the Government grading policy, one would only have to examine two gauges: the group of Economics concentrators who took Government courses, and the group of Government concentrators who took Economics courses. By comparing...
Suppose 30 per cent of the grades received in the Ec department were A's or A-'s, and 15 per cent of department grades received in the Gov department were A's or A-'s. Suppose that the Ec concentrators received A's or A-'s in 30 per...
Same hypotheses as above, except the Ec students now receive A's or A-'s in 30 per cent of their courses in the Ec department and 15 of their courses in the Gov department while the Gov students now receive A's or A-'s in 15 per cent...
But that's all changed this year. Last spring the Committee on General Education decided not to accept Nat Sci 36 as a general education course, because of its unorthodox grading policy.
The revisions include removing questions that the council feels deal more with the instructor's performance than with the intellectual content of a course, the deletion of the grading distribution in each course and the omisison of letters from administrators, presently included in the book.