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...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 see the point...
...Nobody wants to think that students are motivated by grades, but they are motivated by grades,” Pedersen said...
...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...
...Pedersen will pass along the departmental reviews she receives Friday to the Educational Policy Committee (EPC), which she said hopes to bring an official proposal for reform to vote before the faculty this spring...
...rebirth of the freshman seminar program was really made possible because of [Knowles’] commitment to it,” Pedersen said. “He put a great deal of work into personally engaging the Faculty with that issue when we first thought about expanding...