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 ...

Educational psychologist Paul Dressel wrote in 1957: “A grade is an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student attained an undefined ...

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 ...