Tag: grading

You aren’t your grades

It’s time to rethink the meaning of grades and how they’re constructed. The current Canadian post-secondary grading system is used to determine a student’s value and rank in the education system. But because education tends to cater to certain learning styles, it fails to adequately reflect the actual...

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Context needed

The Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) should be applauded for their proactive efforts to have class averages or medians included on transcripts. The 2012-13 Arts and Science grades report — which was released in April — found major discrepancies in grades between academic departments. This...

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ASUS fighting uphill grading battle

ASUS’s plan to encourage the Faculty of Arts and Science to have class averages appear on transcripts, discussed at a Tuesday town hall meeting on the 2012-13 Arts and Science grading report, might be more of an uphill battle than they expect. The talk followed an April report which outlines grading...

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Grading discrepancies a point of contention

The “Journal vs …” is a new section within Dialogue. Two writers — one a member of the Journal Editoral Board and the other a member of the wider Queen’s community — face off on a selected topic. The views expressed by the Editorial Board member don’t represent the collective views of the Journal,...

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GPA goes wrong

The University’s new grading system offers no comfort to Queen’s students. The Grade Point Average, implemented in May, hurts the student who cares about the one per cent difference that can make or break a post-secondary career. A grade between 77 and 79 per cent is equivalent to a 3.3 GPA, while...

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Factoring in your GPA

Any students still enrolled at Queen’s as of May 1, 2011 will see some changes on their academic transcript. When the new system is implemented, professors will assign letter grades to students instead of percentage grades. These letters correlate with a pre-decided grade point. This figure will be...

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