Word: pass-fail
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Current freshman seminar students said that individuals who lack experience in the arts feel comfortable enrolling in these art-making courses because they are taken pass-fail...
...life, pro-gun, socially conservative policies will seduce and how many they will alienate. Rather, the test that the McCain campaign failed to put her through was the Abbotsleigh Ladies College test. (Named after my high school. Go, green and gold!). It's a simple three-point pass-fail exam: Will the other girls like...
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced Friday that the current letter grading scale would be replaced by a simpler pass-fail system, beginning with students who matriculate...
Harvard's grading system will now resemble that of rivals Stanford, whose faculty voted in May to discontinue letter grades, and Yale, which has had a pass-fail system since the 1960s. Proponents of broader grade categories typically point to decreased competitiveness and enhanced freedom to explore intellectually without concern for academic penalty in their justifications of the system...
...writing to let you know that the faculty decided yesterday to move to a grading system with fewer classifications than we have now. The new classifications, much as at Yale and Stanford, will be Honors-Pass-Low Pass-Fail. The faculty believes that this decision will promote pedagogical excellence and innovation and further strengthen the intellectual community in which we all live. The new system will apply to students entering HLS in fall 2009; yet to be determined is whether it also will apply to some or all classes of current students...