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The best hope for clarifying standards is for each professor to produce rubrics explaining the standards students will have to meet in order to earn a particular grade in the course. Examples of successful assignments should be made available to students so that students can understand the level of performance...
As the calls for reform have multiplied over the past year, the Faculty’s Educational Policy Committee has brainstormed several ways to combat grade inflation. One suggestion, which was adopted by the Faculty and will be enacted next year, is to switch from Harvard’s needlessly...
“I welcome the Faculty’s adoption of higher standards for honors, more transparent grading and sounder grading practices in the future,” Summers said in a statement.
The grading and honors proposals adopted yesterday were drafted by the Educational Policy Committee and shaped by the Faculty Council.
She said her office would circulate among the entire Faculty a compilation of the materials collected during its year-long review of Harvard’s grading practices to further conversations about these issues.