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Plus-minus grades a mixed bag for students
AUDREY GOODSON
Issue date: 2/26/07 Section: News
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The overall University GPA with the plus-minus system, in Fall 2006, was only slightly lower than in Fall 2005.
The number of grades lowered by minuses were almost 6,000 more than the number of grades which were raised by pluses. Almost 62 percent of grades remained unchanged by the system since 2006.
Jere Morehead, interim vice president for instruction, said he's only received "positive feedback" from professors.
"The plus-minus system has allowed faculty to give grades that more accurately reflect what's going on in the classroom," he said.
FALL 2006 GRADES
A: 34,412
A-: 13,396
B+: 12,040
B: 18,954
B-: 7,278
C+: 4,843
C: 7,043
C-: 1,969
D: 2,980
As of press time, there were no groups praising the change.
Hadas Peles, a sophomore from Bothell, Wash., said she is "ambivalent" about the plus-minus system.
"Does it make you work harder?" she asked. "I don't see a difference on campus, honestly."
"(University President) Michael Adams said this would motivate students and change the culture. I don't think it's done that."
Plus-minus grading doesn't affect a student's GPA for HOPE scholarship eligibility.
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Malcolm Adams
posted 2/26/07 @ 9:24 AM EST
Be careful about how you interpret those A minuses. Some of them would have been B's under the old grading system. There are certainly faculty that interpreting the new grading scale that way. (Continued…)
Mike
posted 2/26/07 @ 3:27 PM EST
I wish more instructors felt the way Prof. Adams says they do! Some grade that way, but most don't. I would encourage students and faculty alike to check out http://ugaplusminus. (Continued…)
Kevin Cotham
posted 2/26/07 @ 7:12 PM EST
As I said with my open letter to Jere Morehead, this would not work to increase "academic rigor". Mr. Morehead is out of touch with the student body. (Continued…)
Kevin Cotham
posted 2/26/07 @ 7:15 PM EST
Why was this system not implemented only with incoming freshmen? Those of us that have been with the ABCDF system should have been left to graduate under that system. (Continued…)
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