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This plan is ingenious and admirable and deserves support. While it lacks the immediate force of a strike, shutdown or demonstration, it has handcuffed the faculty and effectively reintroduced pass-fail grading.
Proponents of a structured grading system argue that without grades, better students would have no assurance of acceptance as interns by prestigious hospitals. This argument rests on shaky premises.
LAST SPRING the Med School faculty approved a four-point grading plan to replace a pass-fail system for the first year and a half of Medical School. The new system met its first test in late October at a midterm exam in Histology taken by all first-year students...
The results showed that a system that had been proffered as a variation of pass-fail grading had been abused. Instructors allotted only an eight-point region for passing marks. Furthermore, 16 per cent of the class fell within a "marginal" designation and were required to perform remedial work. Ostensibly...
The problems with the writing are naturally accompanied by problems of the organization and presentation in the book. This is supposed to be a case study on how things happen at the Business School. But as a case study it focuses on the activities of one group of people who...