Word: pass-fail
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...Robert H. Ebert, dean of the faculty of Medicine, moved Friday to contain debate on the issue of pass-fail grading by agreeing to create a student-faculty committee to come up with a resolution on the problem before a faculty meeting in mid-January...
This plan is ingenious and admirable and deserves support. While it lacks the immediate force of a strike, shutdown or demonstration, it has handcuffed the faculty and effectively reintroduced pass-fail grading...
...results showed that a system that had been proffered as a variation of pass-fail grading had been abused. Instructors allotted only an eight-point region for passing marks. Furthermore, 16 per cent of the class fell within a "marginal" designation and were required to perform remedial work. Ostensibly conceived as a warning to those few students bordering on failure, this designation was stretched...
Even leaving aside this question, it is clear that the Harvard Med School faculty should restore pass-fail grading. It has received an overwhelming mandate from its students, a fact that must override other considerations...
...faculty should reinstate pass-fail grading...