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 ...

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 ...

Students in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) are rejecting a plan to change the grading system in the upcoming school ...

Our Grading System Was Setting Students Up to Fail—Until This Change The bumpy but transformative switch to standards-based grading By Matthew Ebert — May 13, 2025 5 min read ...

Using an example, she said a student who turns in a superior report 10 days late may receive a good score on the report, but with information about the need to work on organization skills.

Inside some University of California academic departments and colleges, an atypical idea is gaining steam: deemphasizing, or even ditching, the A-F grading system and rethinking how to assess student ...

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 ...

But one after another, parents at a July school board meeting did just that. Some complained that the change to the grading system made their students guinea pigs in what they saw as an unproven ...

For example, LSU students earn 3.7 quality points for an A-minus grade, 4.0 quality points for an A grade and 4.3 quality points for an A-plus grade.

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 ...

For example, if a B-level student misses an assignment, it takes many more to raise their grade to reflect the work they do accomplish, Raucci said.