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Following a 2001 Boston Globe article reporting that 91 percent of graduating students received honors, Harvard came under fire for its inflationary grading tactics.
After extensive discussion, the faculty capped the overall number of honors at 60 percent, voted to switch grade point averages from a 15- to a four-point scale, and formally committed to enforcing more vigilant grading practices.
“I don’t think our grading patterns have changed appreciably,” Feldman said. “I don’t think we’ve done anything that could cause them to change substantially, other than a little bit of jawboning,?...
Feldman proposed another alternative to ameliorate a grading problem he identified as compression—a narrowing of the range between high and low grades, especially as more are squeezed toward the top of the grade spectrum.
“If one is serious about wanting to reduce the amount of grade compression, then one way of doing it would be to simply go to a completely new grading system,” Feldman said. “In other words instead of A through E, it...