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Sand & Science. Refined from common sand, Texins' super silicon is so pure (not more than one part of non-silicon to 1 billion parts of silicon) that the National Bureau of Standards still lacks a grading system for it. In minute amounts, it will enable electronics men to make...
Harvard's emphasis on grades can show worst in the examination which ends the course and completes the process of grading it. Finals can and should be educational tools themselves, but they now tend to emphasize memory, not thought, and to allow for a liberal amount of vaguely knowledgeable generalization...
The fact-memory exam has one justification--that grades are intended only to show how much has been learned, and that consequently the examination itself need not be a learning experience. This argument rationalizes sloth in writing an exam, but even at its best it has gross defects. The most...
The status quo faction may concede some faults in the system, but ultimately it will argue, as Keppel does, that students who allow low grades to become ends in themselves are immature. He says, "The dangers of the grading system are inherent in the immaturity of the people operating under...
European students may survive without frequent grading but some feel that the different cultural background of the American makes this impractical. As Monro notes, "people have an awful time shedding their grade consciousness when they get here, after having it through their earlier schooling in the form of report cards...