Purdue University

Creating Student-Centered Grading Structures

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 ...
The Hoya

GU Introduces New Grading System as Students Raise Fairness Concerns

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 ...
KY3

School district’s new grading system gives students a low grade of 40% instead of a zero

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - A school district in Missouri adopted a new grading system that prevents students from receiving a zero even if they didn’t do the assignment. The Kansas City ...
WNCT

Easy as A, B, C: How we got to the letter grading system

GREENVILLE, N.C. (Stacker.com) – 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, ...