Show Unfair grading harms child report indicates by Leslie J. D. Professor of University of Southern California Many teachers guard their right to grade as they please as something like freedom of speech or That's fine as long as it does not harm other But lack of consistency In grading among teachers does harm Last for two boys graduated from the same high One had been Identified as a superior student and placed in special classes where he had demanding He graduated with a B The other boy stayed in the regular class and graduated an A The A average made college admission with several offers of B average not only limited the choice of but also the possibilities of Some high schools inform colleges that a student has been in a special or honors but colleges do not necessarily take this into With so much depending these days on it is up to school administrators to eliminate Here are some faulty grading practices used in our Down-grading a student because he is not up to his If a student earns a C average and is given a D because a teacher feels he is capable of B the system is His do not receive a true report of his Grading on When a college freshman failed a literature her inquiring parents' Were told by her professor is her final examination paper for the was the best paper ten in the Her was for too much Since this student was able to demonstrate superior work in the subject while missing much of the class she deserved a high grade in the Determining grades by tests that do not measure proficiency in the course In a conversational Spanish a student who could scarcely speak the language received an while an excellent conversationalist received only a B. Grades in this class' were determined entirely by a written final rather than by the student's ability to converse in |