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 ...

Professors at the University of North Carolina on Friday voted down a proposal to add an "achievement index" to the university grading system. The Faculty Council voted 34-31 to stick with the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — One Missouri State University professor is revolutionizing the way students are graded. Dr. Chloe Bolyard, an Associate Professor of Elementary Education, has introduced a new ...

The College Curriculum Council will consider a proposal to add pluses and minuses to the University grading system at its biweekly meeting Dec. 13. Although the CCC cannot approve the measure ...

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 ...

In a bid to reduce academic pressure on students, China’s Peking University has announced a pilot grading reform project at the School of Life Sciences. Under this new system, students are assessed on ...

At its final meeting of the academic year Thursday, Arts & Sciences Council approved a proposal to revise the satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading system that will ...

A University of Mississippi researcher gives the American grading system an 'F' in his new book – and said it is harmful to students. OXFORD, Miss. – America’s obsession with grades is failing ...

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 ...