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Excerpt from Scientific Grading of College Students, Vol. 8: An Address Before the Conference of College Presidents of Pennsylvania, Feb; 29, 1912, Held on the Occasion of the Celebration of the One Hundred Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the University of Pittsburgh
Another very important advance in the grading of students which the normal distribution of grades can in no way bring about is what is known as credit for quality. This is a device gradually coming into favor for gradu ating the amount of credit received in a course according to the quality of work done as well as by the number of hours per week the class is in session. There is a very wide difference between the actual achievement of a stud ent who secures the required number of credits for grad nation with an average grade of D] or C and that of the student who gains the same number of credits with an average grade of A let us say. It is probably not too much to say on the basis of the usual values of these grades that the actual achievement of the latter in the thing the college stands for is at least twice that of the former; yet both receive the same degree and the same di ploma. A student who is obliged to leave at the end of his junior year with an average, grade of B+ or A to his credit is certainly as much entitled to his degree on the score of actual attainment as the one who finishes in the regular way with an average grade somewhere below C. From these considerations both the justice and the standardizing value of credit for quality are manifest. In addition it has a distinct educational value corrective of unfortunate habits in many students in that it places a pre mium on thoroughness and penalizes superficiality.
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