In a search in which I was involved some time ago, a job applicant had included in his CV packet a grade-distribution printout for his courses, along with averages for the department, the college, and ...

The website MyEdu.com (formerly and appropriately called “Pick-a-Prof”) provides “services that focus on college decision making, such as degree planning & requirements, class schedules, courses, and ...

The university administration does not publish a centralized, open-access database of grade distributions, leaving the burden ...

Walk into any high school these days and you'll find honor rolls packed with dozens of students, valedictorians with identical 4.0 GPAs fighting for the top spot, and grade distributions that would've ...

Receiving a shockingly low grade on an exam you truly worked hard for is as demoralizing a feeling imaginable. Rampant red pen stares back at you as you flip to the back page and face your humbling ...

While a professor of statistics at Duke University in the 1990s, Valen E. Johnson devised a sophisticated formula, called the Achievement Index, to get around differences in grading practices among ...

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