Two years ago, Charlie Herzog asked: Should we continue to assign students grades in the traditional manner (percentages & letters), or should we move towards a system based on levels of mastery? I ...

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

Donald F Gleason in 1966 created a unique grading system for prostatic carcinoma based solely on the architectural pattern of the tumor. 1, 2 Another innovative aspect of this system was, rather than ...

I’ve always been obsessed with achieving straight A’s on my report card. The school I attended from preschool through sixth grade pushed me to think that as long as you get an A, you can be happy, ...