Relative impacts of different grade scales on student success in introductory physics

In deciding on a student’s grade in a class, an instructor generally needs to combine many individual grading judgments into one overall judgment. Two relatively common numerical scales used to specify individual grades are the 4-point scale (where each whole number 0–4 corresponds to a letter grade...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: David J. Webb, Cassandra A. Paul, Mary K. Chessey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-08-01
Series:Physical Review Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.020114