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Direct linkCrystal Watkins Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Access to pass/fail grading was liberalized for courses designed to be delivered in-person but moved online due to social distancing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic at many universities in the spring 2020 semester. There was little research to inform liberalizing access to pass/fail grading as a tool to support student performance and persistence…
Descriptors: Pass Fail Grading, Graduate Students, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement
Arnold, Ivo – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
Institutions of higher education commonly employ a conjunctive standard setting strategy, which requires students to resit failed examinations until they pass all tests. An alternative strategy allows students to compensate a failing grade with other test results. This paper uses regression discontinuity design to compare the effect of first-year…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Regression (Statistics), Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Davis, Wanda – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The inclusion of college preparation programs promote and forecast academic success in postsecondary studies among individual at-risk, African American urban high school students. Past research has shown ongoing, college acceptance, performance, and graduation gaps between at-risk, African American urban high school students when compared to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Comparative Analysis, College Preparation, Urban Schools
Englert, Nadine Cozzo – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This retrospective study was conducted to examine the relationship between selected variables and performance on the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Data were collected from one hundred twenty graduates of a baccalaureate program; graduates completed either the traditional four-year track or an accelerated…
Descriptors: Nurses, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Graduates, Neonates
Peer reviewedMerva, Mary – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2003
Compared semester grade point averages (GPAs) among students taking courses at an American university in Europe, where about half of students are degree-seeking, and the other half are study abroad students. Found that students taking the classes for a grade rather than as pass/fail have higher semester GPAs. This suggests that study abroad…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade Point Average, Grades (Scholastic), Higher Education
Download full textMichaelides, Michalis; Kirshner, Ben – College Quarterly, 2005
This study examined graduate student attitudes towards letter and pass/fail grading systems in the Law School and the School of Education in a selective university in the United States. Fifty-four students completed a questionnaire on goal orientations (ability comparison vs. mastery), amount of effort and stress in each of the two grading…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Law Schools, Pass Fail Grading
