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...their educational function, grades are, most basically, a means of feedback. Whether we speak of grades received on individual assignments or in courses on the whole, they provide a measure of performance that, together with detailed comments and criticisms, point students toward future improvement. High grades reinforce strengths, and low grades emphasize the need to improve. The motivational value of grades is encompassed in this feedback purpose, because good work is rewarded and mediocre work is honestly appraised...
Unfortunately, current grading practices fail miserably at providing meaningful feedback on student work, and as a result, grades as pedagogical tools are ineffective at best and useless at worst. Because 86 percent of grades were B or better last year, professors and TFs were effectively limited to four grades—B, B-plus, A-minus and A—when evaluating all but the weakest student work. Not only are there too few grades to be precise, but worse yet, the meaning of those grades is utterly unclear...
Even if the difference between grades were clearly understood, grades provide little feedback to students if they separate quality into only four categories—especially if those categories are at the very top of the grade scale. A student might earn a B-plus on three different papers for the same course, and although each paper may be significantly better than the previous, the grading scale is still too coarse to indicate that difference in quality. With respect to motivation, grades are of little help if a rushed paper—composed hastily and with little preparation?...
...almost no distinction between real and inflated As and, most detrimentally, deprives students of the best opportunity to learn all they can at Harvard. The Faculty must confront its unavoidable responsibility to assure a more professional, direct and organized approach to issuing grades to undergraduates. While giving students meaningful feedback about their work, these grades must maintain the integrity of a Harvard...
Despite the caution, Cabot House residents welcomed the chance to evaluate their tutors and said the feedback will help tutors understand student needs...