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The study, to be conducted by the 10-member Committee on Instruction, will try to assess changes in the importance of grades over the past two decades. Dean Ford, the committee's chairman, said yesterday that the study is not specifically aimed at altering Harvard's grading system.
The committee intends to gather all the information it can about the patterns and effects of grading at Harvard and then release a report on its findings. Once the report is finished-it might take more than a year-the Committee on Educational Policy (CEP) could recommend any changes in...
Like some great Gothic cathedral, the draft system continues to grow and complicate itself. All the while, however, its two characterizing features are maintained: inequity and confusion. For an astounding number of years. Congress has politely averted its gaze and allowed the Selective Service System to construct an incredible edifice...
While harsh and sometimes cruel, student judgments do not necessarily downgrade the taskmasters. Slate contends that Assistant English Professor Joseph Kramer is "a hard grader and expects a lot from his students," yet gives him an A rating for his "perceptive and stimulating presentation of Shakespeare." Good teachers often rate...
One of his aims, says Arons, is to help students realize that science does not have absolute answers, that "it is a creation of human imagination and intelligence like everything else we do." Arons requires many essays of his students, considers this "feedback" vital to good teaching. "You can't...