In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student assessment methods, reigniting a debate over whether the traditional ...

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked ...

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright ...

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

Good grading starts long before a class ends.

Grading systems play an essential role in a student's pursuit of academic success by providing an evaluation of their performance. However, while these systems assist students and teachers in ...

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — After a multiyear hiatus, A-F grades are likely to be used again to measure the quality of Indiana’s schools. The return to a statewide letter grade system is outlined in ...

The state minister for education and sports, Peter Ogwang, has presented a statement to Parliament regarding the new grading system under the lower secondary curriculum. He emphasized that the reforms ...