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- 1From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 60, Issue 20)Byline: Lucy Hodges London -- Britain's grading system is broken. Or at least, that's what critics are saying about the 200-year-old tradition of classifying undergraduate degrees into five categories, from first...
- 2From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 51, Issue 45)Byline: JENNIFER JACOBSON The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has voted to form a committee to investigate claims by some students that professors graded them unfairly because of their political views and used...
- 3From:American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To compare student performance, elements of peer evaluation and satisfaction of teams created according to students' course entrance grade point average (GPA). Methods. Two course sections were divided...
- 4From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 36, Issue 5)Now entering into its fourth year, the Dillard University Center for Law and Public Interest Pre-Law program is furthering its goal to move the needle on diversity in legal education and ultimately the legal profession....
- 5From:Student Lawyer (Vol. 42, Issue 8)You know the feeling. You take an exam and walk away feeling fairly confident. Then when you get your grade, your first thought is confusion, perhaps even denial: "This can't be right!" That series of events likely...
- 6From:University Business (Vol. 13, Issue 3)WOULD MAKING A PLEDGE THAT your graduates will land jobs, especially these days, be a risky move? It hasn't turned out that way for Thomas College (Maine). Since 1999, administrators have maintained such a vow through a...
- 7From:American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (Vol. 77, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To determine which student characteristics and performance criteria in the prepharmacy and doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) program predict success on the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX)....
- 8From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 69, Issue 7)CONSTANCE KASSOR thought she was helping her students. Like many professors, she's been more lenient about accepting late work since the pandemic hit. But last year, she tried something new: She did away with point...
- 9From:Advances in Medical Education and Practice (Vol. 6) Peer-ReviewedObjectives: This longitudinal study was aimed to investigate the association between didactic grades and practical skills for dental students and whether didactic grades can reliability predict the dental students'...
- 10From:Educational Technology & Society (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedComputer-graders have been in regular use in the context of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). The automatic grading of programs presents an opportunity to assess and provide tailored feedback to large classes, while...
- 11From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWe analyse the effect of substituting a weekly mathematics lesson in primary school grades 1-3 with a lesson in mathematics based on chess instruction. We use data from the City of Aarhus in Denmark, combining test...
- 12From:Journal of College Science Teaching (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedStudents' increasingly higher grades in high school have often been attributed to grade inflation, which is an increase in students' grades without an accompanying increase in their academic achievement (Bartlett 2003;...
- 13From:Education Next (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSCHOOLS AND POLICYMAKERS are mandating new antibias training for teachers in an attempt to improve racial attitudes. Decades of research have shown that teachers often give racially biased evaluations of student work...
- 14From:Journal of Education Finance (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This article outlines a framework for evaluating the decision of undergraduate students to engage in term-time employment as a method of financing higher education. We then examine the impact of work on...
- 15From:International Journal of Educational Reform (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe creation--through both new construction and reconfiguration of enrollments in existing facilities--of schools with broader grade spans is increasing in Florida and elsewhere in the United States. The extant...
- 16From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 52, Issue 49)Byline: MICHAEL E. GORDON Grade inflation has been in the public's eye for a long time. The first of many empirical studies of the problem in American higher education reported an average increase of 0.404 points in...
- 17From:BMC Medical Education (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Standard setting for clinical examinations typically uses the borderline regression method to set the pass mark. An assumption made in using this method is that there are equal intervals between global...
- 18From:Journal of College Science Teaching (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedStudents routinely ignore negative feedback regarding their performances early in college science courses. In this study we analyzed the extent to which two standard forms of feedback, midterm and first-exam grades,...
- 19From:The Scientific World Journal (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedWhen selecting relevant inputs in modeling problems with low quality data, the ranking of the most informative inputs is also uncertain. In this paper, this issue is addressed through a new procedure that allows the...
- 20From:BMC Medical Education (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Grade inflation which is known as the awarding of higher grades than students deserve in higher education has been observed since the 1960s. There is comprehensive evidence that document the allegations,...