A study was conducted over four semesters, spring 1976 through fall 1977, at the State University Colleges at Oswego and Cortland, two arts and sciences colleges of the State University of New York. It investigated the relationship of selected demographic variables of college teachers, selected environmental factors, and grades given by faculty…

Noting that the students participating on a typical yearbook staff must develop their expertise in such areas as writing, art and design, leadership, business, and group dynamics in a highly realistic job-oriented situation, this paper suggests that yearbook production should be an accredited course in the high school curriculum, with an…

The presence of F in the ABCDF grading scale results from the struggle between authoritarian and egalitarian philosophies over how best to support the school work ethic. Authoritarian forces have favored the precise 0-100 scale that centralizes power clearly in the hands of the teacher. Egalitarian forces have supported less precise measures, such…

A study was undertaken to validate earlier research on the affective meanings of college grades to students, and to extend the generalizability of the findings by studying a more representative group. One hundred six students in two sections of an introductory psychology course comprised the sample. The average student was a second-semester…

The objectives, programs, and procedures of the English department at Maine Township High School South in Park Ridge, Illinois, are set forth in this handbook. The 14 sections cover the following areas: the department philosophy; the community and the student body; the purposes and objectives of the district's educational program; departmental…

A psychology for responding to student writing that follows Adlerian principles can provide teachers with a basis for reacting to student papers. The teacher commentary derived from individual psychology should be supplemented by editorial comments directed to individual problems, and it works best with freshman composition courses full of novice…

IN A STUDY OF GRADING METHODS PRACTICED BY TEACHERS OF 103 SIXTH GRADE CLASSES, IT WAS FOUND THAT USE OF THE I.Q. SYSTEM AS A BASIS FOR ACHIEVEMENT GRADING PRODUCES APPROXIMATELY THE SAME RESULTS AS PERMITTING TEACHERS TO USE THEIR OWN JUDGMENT IN ASSIGNING ACHIEVEMENT GRADES. TWO HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED--(1) THE AVERAGE I.Q. LETTER GRADE OF A…

THE PRESENT AND FUTURE ROLE OF COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION IS EXAMINED IN TERMS OF PREPLANNING, USE, AND FUNCTION. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS IS SEEN AS THE BEST MEANS OF VIEWING THE TOTAL OPERATION AND OF FINDING UNIFYING PATTERNS AND LOGICAL, EFFICIENT OPERATING PROCEDURES WITHIN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. BASIC COMPUTER OPERATIONS ARE DESCRIBED, AND HARDWARE AND…

No-deadline sections of a personalized child development course and sections that had deadlines were compared in regard to proctor workload, proctor grading accuracy, and pressure on proctors. A total of 167 students in four sections of the course, and five proctors and one instructor per section, participated in the study. Students in the…

The holistic procedure used to score 2,800 student papers in the New Jersey Writing Project is described in this booklet. Characteristics are given of papers that received high, middle, and low scores. It is noted that (1) papers receiving high scores were characterized by a clear understanding of and a direct approach to the assignment, a…

This manual lists regulations and practices governing credit procedures at Los Angeles City College (California). Grading practices and record updating procedures are covered, including credit by examination, credit/no credit grading, credit on early military withdrawal, course repetition, course duplication, incompletes, and credit transfer. The…

The four parts of this report are: (1) the purposes of evaluation and reporting; (2) relationship to educational philosophy and methods of teaching, including historical development, present reporting practice and criticisms of these practices, and alternatives to conventional grading; (3) the best way to report student achievement; and (4)…

In an attempt to understand the variability in student evaluations, a study was undertaken at the beginning of the fall 1972 semester to analyze California students' initial course expectations. A Course Questionnaire was designed consisting of a total of 19 statements with a six-point response rating scale ranging from strongly agree to strongly…

In order to determine the extent to which Pass/Fail grading affects the learning process by altering student motivation, the author studied the grades of 61 Pass/Fail and 61 traditionally graded students who had enrolled in the "Introduction to Africa" course at York College (Pennsylvania) during the three semesters of 1973-74. All…

Since Students in Freshman English face the problem of feeling that they cannot begin to match the professional writers whose essays they read, an experiment was designed in which instructors used well-written themes of fellow students as examples of good writing on a level more attainable than the professional essayist. Pairs of themes--one well…