Results support the adaptation-level hypothesis with regard to college grading standards for low and middle ability levels with weaker support for the hypothesis at the high ability level. Implications for major field enrollment, changing admission standards, and evaluating admission experiments are discussed. (Author/BJG)

Article examined the provisions typical of pass/fail plans implemented in several high schools in this country to determine if these provisions are likely to enhance accomplishment of the objectives of the pass/fail grading innovation. (Author/RK)

The paper outlines a method for evaluating machined parts which are used as standardized, graded exercises in a machinist training program and provides information regarding the statistical and psychometric properties of the experimental training criterion. (Author/MW)

Members of the New York State Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges were surveyed concerning characteristics of remedial programs, objectives of such programs, and facilities necessary. The results of the survey are reported and discussed. (SD)

Students in the speech and theatre department at a Rhode Island university can receive one to three credits for forensic tournament participation and/or student coaching. A four-part evaluation system was designed to grade tournament participation. Students are notified by memo at the beginning of the semester that their final grades will be based…

Evaluation and grading are individual and unique components of the formal learning/teaching process. Both acts embrace moral as well as ethical concerns which demand thorough, reflective attention. As teachers, we must admit to the subjectivity of both and use that subjectivity in a positive striving toward fairness. Our concern should be with the…

Differences in grades received by students in different sections of the same college course were evaluated at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in fall 1983 and compared to spring 1983 findings. After determining grades for each section of a particular course, the chi-square test for "k" independent samples was applied to the data to…

Although the majority of faculty members surveyed favored the structure, purposes, and operation of pass/not pass grading, they preferred limited use of the option by students. (Author)

Student perceptions of their behaviors in graded courses were compared with those in courses where they received written evaluation. While they reported working equally hard and being equally anxious, they did more of the reading in the evaluation courses and "got more out of" the graded ones. "Getting something out of" a…

Summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of contract grading as revealed through current research. A sample contract syllabus which was used in a basic university speech communication course is included. (MH)

Implementation of Title IX and resultant sex equity laws in secondary physical education programs occasions a need to develop new methods of evaluating and grading students enrolled in coeducational physical education classes. This document discusses problems that may occur as a result of sex equity modifications from the point of view of the…

Mastery Learning, a learning strategy which denies the inevitability of the normal grading curve, holds promise in skill-building courses. For a composition course using this strategy, course objectives must first be established and stated behaviorally, after which the course may be broken into learning units, each lasting perhaps two weeks. At…

This publication offers suggestions to any teacher in the field of education. It is not intended to answer all questions regarding evaluation, but rather to serve as a springboard toward stimulating new ideas and encouraging teachers to experiment with new methods of evaluation. Three classifications are used to show the varied methods of…

This report investigated two hypotheses: 1) junior high school teachers with concrete belief systems would assign more unsatisfactory citizenship grades and lower academic grades than more abstract teachers; and 2) the correlation between citizenship and academic grades would be higher for concrete than abstract teachers. Ten teachers from…