Word: ungradedness
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In line with Gorbachev's calls for a more candid assessment of the past, the Soviet State Committee on Education in May canceled all traditional history exams, which are based on old-party-line texts. Instead, it ordered ungraded, open "discussion" groups of the sort held in Middle School 734...
Because the classes are run by discussion and not lectures, the members feel obligated to participate, even though the sessions are ungraded. "They really work just because they don't want to embarrass themselves," says Hokanson.
To help the students feel more comfortable with the financial material, the Business School may offer a series of ungraded accounting classes in the early fall, MacFarlan said.
Though many professors have hope in Brustein, his battle will be far from easy. There remains diehard resistance to arts for credit, a movement backed by the belief that education doesn't necessitate credit and that students don't want anything different than what they have now. "Everyone knows the...
The Faculty Council decided Wednesday to review the guidelines for giving credit to independent work, because it believes the current legislation allowing upperclassmen to petition for the ungraded courses may be overly vague.