College Grades [microform] : What Do Professors Intend to Communicate to Whom? / Patricia W. Lunneborg
- Bib ID:
- 5339103
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Lunneborg, Patricia W
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED142591
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1977
- 8 p.
- Summary:
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Professors at a large, northwest, state-supported university selected communication between instructor and student as the most important function of grades. Second in importance was the predictive function of grades, i.e., providing the student and others with information for making educational and vocational decisions. Third in importance was the grade as historical record. This student-centered attitude towards evaluation was also reflected in their favorite choice of model for assigning grades, agreeing with Arrington that mastery grading emphasizes communication between teacher and student at the expense of communication with other groups. Seventy percent of this sample of 700 (from 2,200) had adopted the University's new decimal grading system which they overwhelmingly believed would be better than the previous letter grades. Rather than using letter grades (A=4.0, B=3.0), faculty could choose to assign more precise number grades, to one decimal place (3.7=A-, 3.3=B+, etc.). The fact that 83% of the faculty considered grade inflation a major or somewhat serious problem may be linked with the large percentage opting for the new decimal grading system, but this system should not be construed as an effort to improve the declining predictive power of grades. (Author/MV)
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- Educational level discussed: Higher Education.
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Washington Univ., Seattle. Educational Assessment Center
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- ERIC
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- 1977
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