The Effect of Nonstandard Undergraduate Assessment and Reporting Practices on the Graduate School Admissions Process. GRE Board Research Report GREB No. 76-14R [microform] / Joan Knapp and I. Bruce Hamilton
- Bib ID:
- 5361732
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Knapp, Joan
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- [Washington, D.C.]] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1978
- 72 p.
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This survey identified problems encountered by deans and admissions staff from 35 graduate schools regarding a typical undergraduate assessment and reporting procedures such as credit by examination, credit for prior learning or field experience, narrative transcripts, and pass/fail grading. Eighteen of these schools were studied in depth via site visits in order to provide attitudinal and anecdotal information. Graduate school deans and faculty reported that they have not received a great number of nonstandard transcripts or transcripts with nonstandard notation. Nevertheless, when such records do appear in student applications, they cause two major problems: because grades usually are not associated with nonstandard notation, grade-point averages cannot be calculated easily; and information that explains nonstandard notation rarely accompanies the transcripts. Credit by examination, credit for prior learning, and credit for faculty-sponsored field experience cause fewer problems in the admissions process than narrative transcripts, provided the number of these credits is small and not in the student's major field. Narrative descriptions of achievement are problematic because of the lack of a comparative basis for judgment, the uneven nature of the descriptions, and the length of the reports. Survey questions and sample transcripts are appended. (Author/GDC)
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