Faculty and administrators at Western Oregon University are aiming to increase student retention rates and foster academic equity by changing the university’s grading system. The small regional ...

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 ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Zoe Thomas: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, July 3rd. I'm Zoe ...

The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

SINGAPORE – Marking technical workings on mathematics and physics paper scripts can be laborious. In recent times, lecturers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Singapore University of ...

The grades A, B, C, and D may be modified by (+) or (-) suffixes, except that the grade of “A” may not be modified by a (+) suffix. Grade point values per unit are assigned as follows: A = 4.0 A- = ...

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...

Despite the rise in grade point average cutoffs to earn Latin honors and Dean’s List recognitions over the past two decades, Duke faculty are grappling with how — and whether — grade inflation has ...

The grading system at the University of Michigan doesn’t make much sense. On the scale listed on the LSA website, each letter grade increase is worth a point on the grade point average scale; going ...

A graduate instructor is on leave while the University of Oklahoma evaluates the student’s claim and the grading process. NORMAN, Okla. - The University of Oklahoma says it is reviewing concerns from ...