Report on METHODS OF Evaluating Students at the University of California, Berkeley [microform] / Stuart Miller
- Bib ID:
- 5243392
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Miller, Stuart
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED076631
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1965
- 19 p.
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Several arguments are made for changing the present system of grading in college. The arguments deal with: (1) the negative effect of grading on the teaching situation--the system is capricious and variable and encourages "grade grubbing"; (2) the lack of accuracy and uniformity of grades; (3) the effect of grading, as an enforcer of the work-success ethic, on the values of the university; (4) the failure of grading to stimulate motivation to learn; (5) the emphasis on grades for graduate admission despite the fact that grades do not predict success in graduate school; (6) the fact that grades are less important in obtaining employment than faculty evaluations; (7) the way in which the grading system encourages a kind of competition alien to the real purposes of university education and discourages the development of intrinsic and lasting intellectual interests and of self-definition and evaluation; (8) the low correlation between grades and creativity; (9) the way the system encourages cheating; (10) the protection grading affords bad teaching. Alternatives to grading suggested are: (1) pass-fail grading--minor enlargement of this option, pass-fail in the breadth requirements, in all nonmajor courses, in the first two years, in all four years; and (2) comprehensive examinations--a system for qualifying examinations for majors and for breadth requirements. (KM)
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- Educational level discussed: Higher Education.
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- 1965
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