According to NCDC, the new grading scale proposes A = 5 points, B = 4, C = 3, D = 2, and E = 1. Under the old system, A carried 6 points, B 5, C 4, D 3, E 2, and O 1.

Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and rooted in century-old practices. Recently, amid a broader national trend, grading systems in schools have come ...

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

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 ...

Across the country, universities are using this and other alternative grading models that guarantee high marks based on some standard other than merit. Alternative grading schemes like these—often ...

Hundreds of thousands of teenagers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland have received their GCSE results today (August 21). But long gone are the days of grades A to U, and for the past few ...

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...