While schools began to implement formal student evaluation systems before 1897, the first real example of the letter-grade system emerged this year from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.

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 ...

AI is continuing to cause trouble on college campuses, but this time it's professors who are in the firing line.

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 ...

Personal data for roughly 820,000 current and former New York City public school students was compromised in the hack of a widely-used online grading and attendance system earlier this year, city E… ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

So now, if SIU students get a 92% in a class, for example, they receive an A- in a class. This would grant them 3.667 points toward their GPA, bringing what used to be a perfect grade slightly lower.

New grading system worries some. By Todd Erzen. [email protected]. ... For example, students wouldn’t take the exact test over again the next day if they did poorly on it the first time.

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in LSU’s grading system caused a scare for some students who received false notices that their TOPS scholarships had been revoked because they no longer qualified based on their GPAs.