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Organized a little over a year ago, the CEP's symposium on examinations may be the first of its kind. With the realization that grades have become increasingly important in the last decade, the CEP has tried to gain perspective on the problem of examining and grading by asking a...
Government 1 uses a grade "curve" in order to protect students "against capricious grading by inexperienced or idiosyncratic section men," Dr. John R. Rodman, a Gov 1 section man said last night.
Rodman was replying to charges made last week by the chairman of an HCUA committee to study examination grading. The chairman asserted that Government 1 employed an "unfair and inequitable quota system" of grading which penalized students in unusually good sections.
The recent controversy engendered by the HCUA report has centered around allegations that students are often told in Government 1, "You would have gotten an A (or B) but I can only give out so many." Any section man who tells that to a student does not have the courage...
Spokesmen for the Government Department responded yesterday to the HCUA's recent charges by explaining that Gov. 1 bases its grading on a "broad flexible standard" and not a "rigid quota system."