Article presented a look at the characteristics of both graded and non-graded schools and how they stack up as a means of educating today's children for tomorrow. (Editor/RK)

Lecture presented at the Language Testing Course at the Reinhardswaldschule, Kassel, West Germany, June 1972. (DD)

Rather than adopting a marking system as perfect for all circumstances, educators might find themselves more competent evaluators by first determining the circumstance and then applying the appropriate marking system. (Author)

A principal components analysis was conducted to determine whether the measures of essays made by the computer could be grouped into factors. Six factors (fluency, spelling, diction, sentence structure, punctuation, and paragraphing) were identified. (Author)

To overcome the many shortcomings in the present single grade system, a grading system is proposed that will allow separate reports with different reference points. (Author)

Author suggests grades of HPD (High Professional Distinction), PD (Professional Distinction), PC (Professional Competence), MPC (Marginal Professional Competence), and DPC (Deficient Professional Competence) rather than traditional grading students. (HS)

More schools are applying a diversity of new grading innovations, with complete elimination of the failure concept as the emerging pattern. (Editor/IR)

A fictional account of the grading practices of a high school faculty. (MF)

The phenomenon of "halo" effects in subjective grading was investigated. Two groups of three raters evaluated 20 term papers in introductory psychology. Term paper grades correlated significantly with course grades when information about previous academic performance was made available. When this information was not available, the…

The study indicated that student teaching is an anxiety-producing experience but little difference exists between students taking it by pass/fail and those taking it by grade. Both tended to experience loss of sleep and appetite changes and higher anxiety levels when confronted with situations involving the university coordinator. (NQA)

The first section promotes use of student notebooks in mathematics instruction as incentives for pupils to do daily work. Part two looks at a geometric interpretation of the Euclidean algorithm. The final section examines an open box problem that is thought to appear in virtually every elementary calculus book. (MP)

Reports on an experiment during which English teachers collected pieces of writing that their students had prepared for assessment and gave them to other English teachers for grading. (HOD)