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From that point of view, grading- a sort of systems-analysis-efficiency-check-up- inhibits learning and thinking. From that point of view, the traditional modes of instruction- the lecture and the discussion class or section- are, in reality, un-educative processes. In lectures, a professor transmits the ideas and...
They decided at the meeting to reprint a critical student report from last year, "The Trouble With Grades." for distribution next week. About 40 students - some of them favoring the old system of grading - signed up for a steering committee which will try to come up with suggestions to present...
At the beginning of the Spring term last year, a group of students distributed "The Trouble With Grades" and urged pass-fail grading. Eventually 80 per cent of the class signed a petition supporting that position, and there were rumblings of a student strike if the faculty did not act...
Derek C. Bok, dean of the Law School, appointed a committee headed by Robert E. Keeton, professor of Law, to investigate the School's grading system. That committee's report, approved by the faculty, gave each first-year student the option of having his grades reported simply as pass or...
Some members of this first-year class fear the faculty will try to return to conventional grading. And they're not even happy with last spring's compromise. First-year student Ed Berlin said, "The system today is inadequate incorporating the evils both of pass-fail and of regular grades...