Nine out of 10 faculty who switched to a specifications grading system reported it resulted in higher-quality student work.

I knew what to do, I’ve done it before, mark them credit or no credit and move on. Students get something out of that. They ...

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 ...

On April 30, The Dartmouth learned of a public project posted by chemistry professor Paul Robustelli on the Dartmouth Claude enterprise portal. The project, titled “PS3 Grading,” contained problem ...

Educators spend countless hours thinking about grades, talking about them, and doing the work involved in giving them. Many posts on this topic have appeared here over the years, and I’m sure more ...

Most educators think that A through F or numeric grades aren’t a “very effective” way to reflect what students know and can do. So, what is the benefit of those systems? Why are these systems still in ...

Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and rooted in century-old practices. Recently, amid a broader national trend, grading systems in schools have come ...