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Academic grading in the United States

Index Academic grading in the United States

Academic grading in the United States commonly takes on the form of five letter grades. [1]

42 relations: Advanced Placement, Alverno College, Antioch College, Bennington College, Brooklyn, Brown University, Class rank, College of the Atlantic, Corporation, Elementary school, Euphemism, Evergreen State College, Extra credit, Grade inflation, Grading in education, Grading on a curve, Hampshire College, Ivy League, Kindergarten, Liberal arts college, Mean, Narrative evaluation, New College of Florida, Normal distribution, Outcome-based education, Peer assessment, Phillips Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, Prescott College, Primary school, Reed College, Saint Ann's School (New York City), Sarah Lawrence College, Secondary school, St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe), Standard deviation, Termination of employment, The Wall Street Journal, United States, University of Oxford, Vitality curve, Weighting.

Advanced Placement

Advanced Placement (AP) is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board which offers college-level curricula and examinations to high school students.

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Alverno College

Alverno College is a Roman Catholic, four-year, independent, liberal arts college, historically and still primarily a women's college located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Antioch College

Antioch College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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Bennington College

Bennington College is a private, nonsectarian liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

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Class rank

Class rank is a measure of how a student's performance compares to other students in his or her class.

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College of the Atlantic

College of the Atlantic (COA) is a private, liberal-arts college in Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine, United States.

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Corporation

A corporation is a company or group of people or an organisation authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

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Elementary school

Elementary school is a school for students in their first school years, where they get primary education before they enter secondary education.

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Euphemism

A euphemism is a generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant.

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Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, located in Olympia, Washington, U.S. Founded in 1967, Evergreen was formed to be an experimental and non-traditional college.

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Extra credit

Extra credit is an academic concept, particularly used in American schools.

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Grade inflation

Grade inflation is used in two senses: (1) grading leniency: the awarding of higher grades than students deserve, which yields a higher average grade given to students (2) the tendency to award progressively higher academic grades for work that would have received lower grades in the past.

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Grading in education

Grading in education is the process of applying standardized measurements of varying levels of achievement in a course.

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Grading on a curve

In education, marking on a curve (BE) or grading on a curve (AE, CE) (also referred to as curved grading, bell curving, or using grading curves) is a method of assigning grades to the students in a class in such a way as to obtain a pre-specified distribution of these grades, such as a normal distribution (also called Gaussian distribution).

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Hampshire College

Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Ivy League

The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private universities in the Northeastern United States.

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Kindergarten

Kindergarten (from German, literally meaning 'garden for the children') is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school.

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Liberal arts college

A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.

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Mean

In mathematics, mean has several different definitions depending on the context.

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Narrative evaluation

In education, narrative evaluation is a form of performance measurement and feedback which can be used as an alternative or supplement to grading.

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New College of Florida

New College of Florida is a public liberal arts honors college located in Sarasota, Florida, United States.

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Normal distribution

In probability theory, the normal (or Gaussian or Gauss or Laplace–Gauss) distribution is a very common continuous probability distribution.

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Outcome-based education

Outcome-based education (OBE) is an educational theory that bases each part of an educational system around goals (outcomes).

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Peer assessment

Peer assessment, or self-assessment, is a process whereby students or their peers grade assignments or tests based on a teacher’s benchmarks.

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Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy Andover (also known as Andover, PA, or Phillips) is a co-educational university-preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate (PG) year.

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Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is a coeducational independent school for boarding and day students in grades 9 though 12, and offers a postgraduate program.

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Prescott College

Prescott College is a private liberal arts college in Prescott, Arizona with the motto: "For the Liberal Arts, the Environment, and Social Justice".

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Primary school

A primary school (or elementary school in American English and often in Canadian English) is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about seven to twelve, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.

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Reed College

Reed College is an independent liberal arts college in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Saint Ann's School (New York City)

Saint Ann's School is an arts-oriented private school with an independent legal structure in the Brooklyn Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City.

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Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)

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Standard deviation

In statistics, the standard deviation (SD, also represented by the Greek letter sigma σ or the Latin letter s) is a measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.

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Termination of employment

Termination of employment, is an employee's departure from a job and the end of an employee's duration with an employer.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Vitality curve

A vitality curve is a performance management practice that calls for individuals to be ranked or rated against their coworkers.

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Weighting

The process of weighting involves emphasizing the contribution of some aspects of a phenomenon (or of a set of data) to a final effect or result, giving them more weight in the analysis.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_the_United_States

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