EAKIN MARK E wrote: > The students did understand that I said that 79 was a C. Some told me > later that since many faculty round 79 up to a B, they feel that I > should also round it up regardless of what I said on the syllabus.
When I was a TA at the University of British Columbia there was a (modified) percentage system in use. (Modified means that the grade reported was weighted by the number of credits.) Even though they did not use letter grades, a score of 80% or higher meant "First class standing", which was useful for scholarship eligibility. Instructors were actively discouraged from assigning 78 or 79%. It was either 77 or 80. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
