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Gilda · 12-25-2005, 01:00 AM

At the University where I'll be teaching starting in January, grading uses the +/- system, but with no A+ and with no D-.

As an instructor, I much prefer to have +/- available to me to allow for finer gradations between and among performance levels. That student just barely making the cutoff for the A range at 92 shouldn't, IMO, be getting the same grade as the student with the 98. Likewise, it makes those borderline cases a little easier; the student scoring a 91 and just barely missing the A isn't getting dinked a full grade point because of that.

Gilda

12-25-2005, 01:00 AM	#21 (permalink)
Gilda 32 flavors and then some Location: Out on a wire.	At the University where I'll be teaching starting in January, grading uses the +/- system, but with no A+ and with no D-. As an instructor, I much prefer to have +/- available to me to allow for finer gradations between and among performance levels. That student just barely making the cutoff for the A range at 92 shouldn't, IMO, be getting the same grade as the student with the 98. Likewise, it makes those borderline cases a little easier; the student scoring a 91 and just barely missing the A isn't getting dinked a full grade point because of that. Gilda __________________ I'm against ending blackness. I believe that everyone has a right to be black, it's a choice, and I support that. ~Steven Colbert