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COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

‘January 24, 1940

GRADES FOR 1938~—'39

 

TABLE I

Table I shows the grade point indices, or the number of grade points per
hour of credit, for each department.

Students from other schools of the University, though enrolled in College
classes, are not included in this study. In other words, both tables deal
with College students only.

The first column of figures shows the relative rankins of all departments
giving College work in 1938-'39; the second column gives the ranking in
1937~—'38. The figures in parentheses to the right of the departmental
names show the relative ranking for 1938-'39 of the College departments
alone,

It seems that about 1)37 for Freshman-Sophomore work and about 1.73 for
Junior-Senior work were the median College departmental indices for
i938." 39,

 

_..__We_are enclosing your own grade point index, It might be interesting to

compare it with your departmental index and also with the College index.

TABLE IT

Table II is, we believe, self-explanatory, Note that the first column

of figures shows the number of enrollments of College students in the
several departments. Obviously the small number of grades considered in
some departments detracts from the significance of the several percentages
shown.

Below is a comparison of the percentages of grades shown in the last five
studies for the College as a whole:

A B c D i P
1934='35 6.6 93255 «©9359 ee 4,3 4a?
1935-'36 4.8 83,2 «WF 8.8 1.8 4.7
1936='37 144.6 33.0 36.0 9.4 2.0 540
1937-'38 risG. 2440 3454 9.9 6. 458
1938-39 2 93,0 352 (2855 1.5 4.7

Note the rather general agreement in all the percentages of all five years.

Many people, both students and instructors, might be surprised to note
that 48.1 per cent of the grades given last year were A's ard B's,

According to our catalogue definitions of the several grades, it would
seem that there should be an increase in the percentage of C grades at
the expense of the A's and B's,