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Francis, Richard W. – Thought & Action, 2006
The author has discovered that errors in grades often occur when scores are combined for final marks. These errors are not related to the grading individual assignments. Rather, they occur when teachers at all grade levels bring individual test and assignment scores together for the students' final grades. Unfortunately, professors of mathematics…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Scores, Grades (Scholastic), Error Correction

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