For most students, grading policies are the most impactful component of a course, and for most instructors, assigning grades and responding to questions and/or complaints about grades can be the more ...

What’s in a grade? Extensive use of partial credit in points-based grades can make it difficult to tell what a student has actually learned. A small but growing number of chemistry professors ...

In the second semester, they either get a letter grade of A, B or C or, if they earn a D or F, the class doesn’t appear on their transcript. By year two, students receive a standard A-F grade for most ...

If you got a 50% on the fraction test, for example, ... 2025 edition of Education Week as Our Grading System Was Setting Students Up to Fail. The Principal Is In: Advice for Principals.

An empty classroom at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto on April 3, 2020. Phoro by Magali Gauthier. “Evidence-based” grading, a grading system that focuses on a student’s growth rather ...

Indian Prairie School District 204 is piloting a weighted grading system this year, with the goal of standardizing grading and promoting equity across the district, according to district ...

Georgetown University announced additional reforms to its grading policy for the spring semester April 2 following weeks of student lobbying for more lenient academic standards amid the COVID-19 ...

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked ...

A young woman writes on a laptop. (Getty) In our many years as college writing instructors, we’ve graded thousands of student essays. This year, motivated by students' trauma during the pandemic ...

A change in LSU’s grading system caused a scare for some students who received false notices that their TOPS scholarships had been revoked because they no longer qualified based on their GPAs.

In addition to the issues Foss pointed to, they noted that parents could misinterpret data entered in the online grade books. For example, if a student was absent for a day, sometimes an ...