Nine out of 10 faculty who switched to a specifications grading system reported it resulted in higher-quality student work.

I knew what to do, I’ve done it before, mark them credit or no credit and move on. Students get something out of that. They ...

One ongoing challenge in education is finding the most effective way to evaluate student performance, whether through traditional percentage and letter grades or emerging nontraditional methods. This ...

In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student assessment methods, reigniting a debate over whether the traditional ...

Credit/No Credit: Students may choose to take a course to earn credit/no credit rather than a grade. No more than one course per term and two courses in a year may be taken on a credit/no credit basis ...