Faculty and administrators at Western Oregon University are aiming to increase student retention rates and foster academic equity by changing the university’s grading system. The small regional ...

For many professors, grading student work is the least enjoyable part of their jobs. “None of us get into teaching to grade,” says Renée Link, a professor of teaching in the Chemistry Department at ...

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Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

Despite the adoption of pass/fail grades by many colleges across the country, the University System of Georgia plans to maintain regular letter grades. A spokesman for the University System of Georgia ...

Students at Georgia’s public colleges and universities are petitioning for a pass-fail grading policy at their institutions this semester, arguing it is a matter of equity given the starkly different ...

Harvard University is reviewing its grading system due to a significant rise in A grades, with 60% of undergraduates now receiving top marks. An internal report highlights concerns that the current ...

The Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) released a survey on Wednesday to gather student input on potential grading policies for the 2020-21 academic year, as well as assess student ...

Ghanaian students and graduates across several tertiary institutions discuss the grading system of one of Ghana’s top schools ...

(STACKER) – Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, philosophically based ...