Without training in objective, systematic methods of assessing student performance, teachers often must rely on poor quality evaluation measures. This article discusses assessment problems and promotes a new Northwest Regional Education Laboratory (Oregon) development: providing classroom assessment specialists to assist teachers with student…

Using simulated student data, this study investigated the grading decisions and future performance expectations of faculty members from allied health programs in Texas. Results indicated that student grade-performance patterns were differentially related to assigned grades and future expectations. (Author/CH)

Explores the nature of court litigation concerning academic accountability and malpractice. Discusses the implications of such litigation for writing instructors, and presents questions writing teachers should ask themselves in preparation for possible law suits. (HTH)

Shows the business education teacher ways to teach students transcription skills. Includes classroom organization, copy distribution (work in progress, for teacher's signature, to be filed), grading (production plan, percentage plan), interruptions (idle chatter, additional dictation, directions), filing the carbons, and businesslike atmosphere.…

Presents a form for grading students in television production classes that is similar to an on-the-job-performance appraisal form. (PD)

Deans from private and public schools of education were surveyed to determine the extent of concern toward grade inflation and to determine the role of various factors as influences on grade inflation. Major causes of this phenomena are explored. (DF)

Describes the use of a programmable calculator for student experiments, grading of laboratory reports, and assigning accuracy and precision scores. (GS)

The problem of grading proofs on examination papers is discussed. The author finds that in many cases students have been taught invalid methods, and he questions whether they should be penalized. (SD)

The pros and cons of various grading systems used in statistics courses for social science students are discussed. The continuous grading scheme uses workbooks, individual projects, and other activities. (SD)

Presented is a detailed review of the guidelines and techniques utilized for contractual learning in biological science courses. Included are six different student grade contract offerings based upon the learning contract presented. (SL)

Criticizes, on the basis of experience, a proposal in this journal 1/1975 to make uniform the grading system for work on English texts at Secondary Grade II. It is insufficiently individualized, too schematic and too demanding. A response to this is provided. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The validity of the degree system in higher education is examined, and reasons for the system are probed with the help of an imaginary interlocutor. Contradictory values are shown to be inherent in the spirit of inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge, and the spirit of competition and pursuit of success. The role of grading is addressed. (LBH)

Presents two examples of report cards designed to support the implementation of social studies programs. The authors claim that both cards illustrate an effort to underscore skills, attitudes, and other teaching-learning conditions in addition to information. (Author/DB)

This study used multiple regression analysis to ascertain the extent to which states' grades on the "Education Week""Quality Counts" report cards for P-12 predicted states' grades on the National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education's "Measuring Up" report cards. "Quality Counts" graded states' P-12…

Changes in high school grading standards were evaluated, focusing on mathematics because only in mathematics was it possible to adjust grades to take into account tested achievement. Data are from nationally representative surveys, the High School and Beyond Study, and the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988. Descriptive analyses were…