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Show Today CrNCr, und tomorrow... Committee studies grading The committee's primary role is analysis and the making of recommendations for grading. It does not handle individual appeals ap-peals from students. These are submitted to another committee. It does review faculty requests for making their classes passfail rather than graded traditionally. Results from surveys of students and faculty are the basis for the recommendations made by the committee. A former committee member said the committee was not crusading for any particular grading system. It proposed ideas that already had substantial backing in the University. The proposed extension for withdrawal with-drawal will be submitted to the University Senate in its meeting Feb. 7. Mr. McKean feels the plan will be approved because the Senate has been "very responsive" respon-sive" in the past. The questionnaire will be aimed at numerous factions in the University. Uni-versity. It will research how people peo-ple feel about present grading policies and what they want in the future. The best system possible is being sought, according to Mr. McKean. He said much has happened with grading in recent years and he predicts many more changes in the next few years. By TIM ST. CLAIR Chronicle Staff lot-- , , "How do you evaluate the experience ex-perience of a quarter with a a, symbol?" asked Dean of Admissions Ad-missions Franklin L. McKean. This sijis one of the questions con-fcfronting con-fcfronting the student-faculty ir committee on grading practices, )e'.of which Mr. McKean is a she member. UThe committee is made up of Mr. tsMcKean, Frank Jex, Shirley Mealey, john R. Nelson, Lillian C. rcSmith and students Edwin Cat's Cat-'s mull, Randall Mason, Craig Kuehn oul:and L. Anne Openshaw. It is chaired by Abraham Sosin. J The grading practices committee is constantly reviewing and f analyzing grading procedures i: used at the University. It attempts to find out which systems work best as well as what students and faculty want. to-- on!, A great deal of criticism has been .fji' leveled at the present A-B-C I grading system. "But no one has M. been able to come up with a a(f: better system," said Mr. McKean. W The committee is the offspring of a faculty ad hoc committee set up it pl " about six years ago. It was a three-w; three-w; man group then. It started the err: University move toward the se-r; passfail option. Three years ago n,f the present standing committee eiff' was formed. Students were also effi; included on the committee at e fei that time. Bob Curtis, Academic Affairs Board, said two of the significant things the committee is doing are 1) trying to extend the withdrawal date from classes to coincide with the creditno-credit deadline, and 2) sending out questionnaires to various segments of the University community concerning con-cerning grading procedures. As it now stands, students have only until Feb. 14 to withdraw from class with a clean slate for winter quarter. If a student withdraws with-draws anytime after that through the quarter, he can get withdraw passing or withdraw failing. The committee's recommendation , would move this deadline back to ; March 1. That is the same deadline as for creditno-credit. |
