Show I I SCIENTIFIC SYSTEM TO GR GRADE DE PUPilS IS ADOPTED University Faculty Fixes Standing by New Scale of Graduation of Merits A ne new system of ot STa grading designed to put all Instructors and anel all aU courses coures on precisely pre pre- th the s basis Is the r recent cent achievement of th the 5 University It of Utah f faculty acuity cUlty The basis of the tho now no Oa system Is tho the scientific nUO distribution of students undertaking to do o the same kind of ot work as to their relative ability o to do this work Students Student oven even better than Instructors have known that the tho old system has bus provided provided pro pro- vided d no rca real standard The new sst system m is ts baa based d on the fact that all nU Individuals differ one from tron an another an I I other Statisticians s u usually get th r normal from th the tho n o of or the fifty of ot such euch a series Above o the middle and be belo belo below be- be et fifty be twenty five superior lo low It twenty five inferior Individual The system adopted b by tho the university faculty accordingly according pro provides provides' for tor five firs grades grade What hat each ach of these grades means Is 16 determined not b by tho the Idea which any Instructor may have hare as to its Ita meaning but b by the relative th frequency of Its occurrence oc Oc- oc- oc currence among say among say a hundred grades Th The Tho university instructor therefore will willIn willIn willin In the future distribute his grades among the stu students from each of ot his classes as follows folio A to the S c rr per r cent of ot superior quality B to th the 20 0 0 per cent cant of ot next superior quality C to tn th th 50 SO O per cent of next medium me mo- chum lurn quality D 0 to the 20 0 per nl c.-nl of next quality below this medium E to a quality b below low pu passing 1 I. e. e for failed aBed A I second s part of th the report of the comI committee com corn Is Isto to come up for or consideration atthe at atthe atthe the next meeting m of th the faculty acuity This part put of the committee report provides pro that students of superior ability may secure their de degree ree In a shorter time than tho those e of m mediocre or Inferior ability and that students student of Inferior ability may be re reQuired required re re- to take longer than th the usual usua four years year for tor their degree Doth parts r of the scheme that already Already- have been adopted b by the university and that are yet vet to have consideration e have already been tried with success In severa several sev soy era oral eral A American universities universities- It Is thought that their adoption hero here will have hav a stimulating Um e-Um- effect affect on all aU tho the intellectual activities activities ac ac- ac- ac of or tho the university |