(STACKER) – Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, philosophically based ...
A public school system in Dublin, California ran a pilot project in standards-based grading, until the school board suspended it after pushback from parents. When a public school system in the San ...
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Stacker.com) – Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, ...
One ongoing challenge in education is finding the most effective way to evaluate student performance, whether through traditional percentage and letter grades or emerging nontraditional methods. This ...
For many professors, grading student work is the least enjoyable part of their jobs. “None of us get into teaching to grade,” says Renée Link, a professor of teaching in the Chemistry Department at ...
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Understanding new UNEB grading system

The previous UCE grading system, which used a 1-9 scale, has been replaced by a new competency-based grading system that uses letters (A–E) and emphasizes skill application over numeric scores. As ...
The current pandemic has changed almost every part of student’s lives, except for one thing: the grading system. We need a grading system that reflects our current circumstances and our current one is ...
Prasad is a fourth-year medical student and public policy graduate student in Austin, Texas. A “quiet but consequential erosion of standards” is how a Republican Texas state senator described ...