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Wednesday. February 6. 1980
University Daily Kansan
Grade system may add plus and minus
By BILL MENEZES
Staff Reporter
Faculty members at the University of Kansas face many tough decisions when it comes to giving grades.
Often students fall between established categories—students who are not good enough for a B, but too good for a C.
The School of Architecture and Urban Design and the School of Law currently are the only schools that officially give grades on a plus and minus basis, but faculty members in other schools say this system works with the problems of borderline grades.
"When I’m concerned that two students are not the same, make it a point to give them a pla or minus, even though I know it will not count on the final transcript." T.P. is professor of mathematics, said yesterday, of his masters, in our own conscience, but it is not given highly.
Administrative action to make plus and min grades more officially accessible to students in grades 9 through changes for grade computations are expected to be considered by the University Board.
ANTHONY J. SMITH, head of the SenEx professor, and professor of psychology, said the proposed changes would allow schools that wished to change to a plus and minus model.
"The architecture school has had approval of its system on a semester basis, he said. "It now wants permanent approval, which would allow it to limit the system to just one school."
The grades used in the proposed system would range from As to Fs, with no A plus, F plus or F minus, he said.
Each letter grade and its plus and minus values would have numerical values, Smith said. For example, an A would be worth four
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"Our assumption is that if one gets grades from a school using this system it will have no effect on one's GPA in the long run," he said.
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"The instructors like it because they can make finer distinctions," he said. "Before it went on the computer we still had to mark some of the buttons in the keyboard hand, but now the computer processes it all."
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Dennis E. Diem, assistant to the dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, said the system had worked well since it was started in that school in the fall of 1975.
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Donald E. Metzler, associate dean of the School of Engineering, said that suggested the development of a sequential system had never been brought up by engineering faculty members, and that he
"Our instructors like the added flexibility," he said. "I think our students are pleased by it too. We've never had any答应 about it."
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"I doubt that most of us have the information to distinguish between a B and B minus." he said, "It seems to substitute new values instead of defining old ones."
"I see nothing wrong with regular grades," he said.
BUT DALE S. Scannell, dean of the School of Education, said he would rather the present grading system be more clearly deflated before a change was made.
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Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, said the system used by the law school, which uses pluses but no minuses, also had been successful.
"I think any changes in an actual GPA would be miniscule."
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