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As departments prepare to submit reviews of their grading procedures to Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’82-’83 Friday—following months of intense media scrutiny of Harvard’s grades—students don’t seem to...
In past discussions, faculty and administrators have cited the inability of inflated grades to motivate students as a pressing argument for grading reform.
But only 47 percent of students said they feel Harvard’s current grading system motivates them to do their best work.
In response to a similar review of grading procedures, Dartmouth College adopted this system beginning with its class of 1998.
Pedersen has repeatedly pointed to the “compression” of the grading scale as a problem—arguing that graders are not given enough choices for evaluating student work.