In a bid to reduce academic pressure on students, China’s Peking University has announced a pilot grading reform project at the School of Life Sciences. Under this new system, students are assessed on ...

Prasad is a fourth-year medical student and public policy graduate student in Austin, Texas. A “quiet but consequential erosion of standards” is how a Republican Texas state senator described ...

Instead of asking how many points they need to earn an A, Homewood High School students in some classes are being asked a different question: What skills have they mastered? Homewood High School is ...

The grading system at A level differs considerably from that at the O level, which often leads to confusion among English-medium students transitioning between the two academic qualifications. It is ...

Ted Forringer is Assistant Department Head of Physics. The Challenges with the Standard Grading System: As faculty, we are all familiar with what I would call the "standard grading system," in which ...

This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. Although the fifth Monday of the semester — the last day for students to switch a course to pass-fail — has ...

I’ve always been obsessed with achieving straight A’s on my report card. The school I attended from preschool through sixth grade pushed me to think that as long as you get an A, you can be happy, ...

We all have an overarching framework for how we approach grading. This grading system translates our assessments—how we gather information about student progress and growth over time—into a ...

Dating back to 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece, grades were never once used. Yet, it still spawned the greatest thinkers and writers of all time. Instead of applying grades, they used formative ...

This is the second article in a two-part series about equitable grading practices. The first article sets up some of the challenges. In this post, learn how teachers are addressing this issue. Nick ...

Just over half a million 16-year-olds in the UK will collect their eagerly awaited GCSE results today – just as they have done for the last quarter of a century. The difference this year is that for ...