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...Dean K. Whitla, the office's director, said yesterday that the study will assess the impact of undergradute education among students at Harvard...
...Dean K. Whitla, associate dean of admissions, compiles all the information on each candidate and computer codes it to produce the "docket," a listing of each candidate, his test scores, interview reports, teacher recommendations, etc. Every shred of information, except perhaps the student's essay, has been reduced to a number on the one line he receives on the docket...
...Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, says that at Harvard in recent years, instructors have tended to grade students in small courses--tutorials, for example--higher than those in average-sized or larger courses...
...Whitla optimistically adds, "A Harvard "B+" is just as good as it ever...
...Whitla, however, says that "nobody wants to legislate grade distributions, really," and instead sees the effective countering of grade inflation as coming "through voluntary faculty adherence to some general established standards of grading...