Contributing Writer As a senior graduating this Fall semester, the grading system of GPAs and letters that have been an omnipotent presence in my academic career for most of my life will no longer be ...

After two years of discussion, project team administrators, team leads and faculty advisors have begun a phase-out period of the letter grading system for project team credit courses. These changes to ...

Contributing Writer Since as early as the late 1800s, universities have depended on a traditional grading system to evaluate ...

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 ...

Most educators think that A through F or numeric grades aren’t a “very effective” way to reflect what students know and can do. So, what is the benefit of those systems? Why are these systems still in ...

A public school system in Dublin, California ran a pilot project in standards-based grading, until the school board suspended it after pushback from parents. When a public school system in the San ...

Educators spend countless hours thinking about grades, talking about them, and doing the work involved in giving them. Many posts on this topic have appeared here over the years, and I’m sure more ...

Two school days. That’s all it took. In 2024, I chaperoned field trips two days in a row, for two different grade levels, and came back to roughly 450 ungraded assignments. I knew what to do, I’ve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why are Indiana lawmakers trying to dismantle pass-fail grading systems? As the largest medical school in the U.S., Indiana ...

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 ...

We have so many theories of motivation—self-efficacy, goal setting, goal orientation, expectancy-value of goal achievement and most recently self-determination—backed by many thousands of research ...

We all have an overarching framework for how we approach grading. This grading system translates our assessments—how we gather information about student progress and growth over time—into a ...