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The HPC resolution reads in part: "Examinations should be regarded as educational experiences, not simply as disciplinary exercises or mechanisms for grading. The educational function of the examination is best served if the student has an opportunity to reconsider and reevaluate his own performance in light of his instructor's...
Grading Conformity
In the language departments, several course heads have tried to do something about this problem. Dwight Le Merton Bolinger, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, said yesterday that the heads of courses should be responsible for watching the students' grades. He has tried to bring some conformity to grading, particularly...
Robert H. Spaethling, associate professor of German, said his course also aimed at standardized grading through department exams, and group grading sessions. The final grade is an average of the objective exam grade (teaching fellows do not grade their students' papers) and the class grade given by the teaching fellow...
The report concludes, "In many ways it is gratifying to find that the change in grading that has taken place in the College's last decade seems to be a reflection of the change in ability and level of achievement of our student body."