Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a photo of a teacher grading papers. Before Thomas Guskey became a leading academic expert on grading and assessments, he ...

The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

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 ...

Nine out of 10 faculty who switched to a specifications grading system reported it resulted in higher-quality student work.

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 ...

The Dean of Undergraduate Education sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss Harvard-Yale relations, Sidechat, and Harvard’s grading system. By Samuel A. Church and Cam N. Srivastava Harvard College’s ...

Grading is used to provide feedback and evaluate student work. Instructors communicate to students about their performance, where they need more help to achieve the course's goals and highlight ...

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 ...

As Year 10 students in England prepare to receive their GCSE results, many parents find themselves grappling with the 9-1 grading system. Results day arrives and your child comes home with a slip of ...