Two years ago, Charlie Herzog asked: Should we continue to assign students grades in the traditional manner (percentages & letters), or should we move towards a system based on levels of mastery? I ...

Nine out of 10 faculty who switched to a specifications grading system reported it resulted in higher-quality student work.

Prasad is a fourth-year medical student and public policy graduate student in Austin, Texas. A “quiet but consequential erosion of standards” is how a Republican Texas state senator described ...

Ted Forringer is Assistant Department Head of Physics. The Challenges with the Standard Grading System: As faculty, we are all familiar with what I would call the "standard grading system," in which ...

This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. Although the fifth Monday of the semester — the last day for students to switch a course to pass-fail — has ...

A state audit found some schools with an A rating have less than 10% of students testing proficient in core subjects, ...

State officials have approved major changes to the system for evaluating annual performance of K-12 schools, a move that some district leaders warn will lead to lower rankings and fewer workforce ...

Grading is always a hot topic for teachers. I don’t have much knowledge of the “mastery” grading concept, though, which is why I’m deferring to guests Thomas R. Guskey, Susan M. Brookhart, and my ...

SENATE President Win Gatchalian has filed Proposed Senate Resolution 429 seeking an inquiry into the Department of Education (DepEd) grade transmutation policy, which may be contributing to the ...

Chennai: Moving away from the relative grading system, Anna University directed all engineering colleges to follow the absolute grading system from the next academic year (2026-27). This means ...