Academic Evaluation and Grading: An Analysis and Some Proposals

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The problem of "grade inflation," soaring since the 1960s, has prompted condemnation of current grading practices and calls for reform of the system of academic evaluation. Reformers decry the predominant ABC model of grading, and its offspring the GPA, as failing to convey much valid information about actual student mastery of learning, relative either to peers' achievements or to objective criteria. In this article, John F. Huntley describes the inadequacies of the present grading system and offers a new model, based upon intrinsic rather than extrinsic evaluation. He attempts to root his intrinsic evaluation system in a standard which is more clearcut than the letter-grade model and therefore less subject to grade inflation. After relating how intrinsic evaluation fared in his own classroom practice,he suggests ways in which his approach might be used more widely.

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