Proposes that the ways in which professors test and grade largely determines what and how their students learn. (Editor/PG)

Discusses the formulation of a departmental policy by English teachers to report student progress to parents and lists the criteria for evaluating student performance. (RB)

A study of the types of speech criticism most helpful to students. (CH)

It is suggested that for checking purposes, "Questions and Answers" should accompany, in the form of a class work blank, the study of a given text. Justification is given, possible objections refuted. An example shows how such work can be quickly corrected and evaluated. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Offers a model for judging and correcting work on texts at Secondary Level II. The model has proved itself in practice and makes individualized analysis possible. Judgement is reached in an objective manner and is therefore transparent. Examples are provided. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

An interim "In Progress" (IP) grade is suggested to replace D's and F's in remedial composition courses. (JH)

Australia's "strange confusion in tertiary education" is discussed with regard to the difficulty of defining distinctions between universities and colleges of advanced education (CAE's), diplomas and degrees. The author proposes that all tertiary institutions be called universities and all degrees and diplomas abolished and replaced by…

A study was conducted to test the notion that effective business writing can be taught with half the "usual" number of teacher-graded papers, thereby allowing teachers to devote more of their time to more creative teaching strategies. Ten instructors and 29 sections of an informational writing class were involved in the study. The design of the…

There is often little correlation between objective tests of writing or writing components and grading by teachers. The technology that can be applied to student writing evaluation lags behind a reasoned rhetorical explanation of test results. Evaluations of writing are inadequate unless they are interpreted within a rhetorical context that…

In order to determine whether students transcribe the same number of words regardless of the speed of the dictation, dictation tests were administered to students enrolled in beginning Gregg shorthand at the secondary level. Test batteries were administered at three different times throughout the first semester of shorthand instruction. The…

The rationale and uses of a checklist for evaluating essays from a second semester college composition course are described in this paper. The checklist has 23 yes/no items organized by subject: content, organization, and mechanics. A scoring rubric which assigns 30 points to the content items and 10 to each of the others is used to convert…

There are variables in existing grading systems that limit their effectiveness as generalized indicators of academic performance. For example: (1) the multiplicity of grading systems now in use create interpretive dilemmas for educators and students alike; (2) attempts to standardize encounter resistance, which hinders a common approach; (3)…

This report presents the procedure, results and conclusions of a study designed to test the hypothesis that there would be no difference in the number of acceptable laboratory reports submitted by students in a ninth-grade science course under a schedule of continuous reinforcement where the teacher graded every report, as compared to the number…