February 06, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 70) • Page Image 4
… — Tuesday, February 6, 2018 DAYTON HARE Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. ALEXA…
… Kevin Sweitzer Tara Jayaram Ashley Zhang Ellery Rosenzweig Elena Hubbell A new kind of grading system is gaining traction at the University of Michigan. About 8,000 students at the…
… Business takes a completely non-self-determined approach to students’ grades: It assesses each and every class on a bell curve, irrespective of learning material, types of assignments or student…
… LSA typically use an absolute grading system to assess students — in my own experience taking a number of upper-level courses in 12 different departments, I have only been graded on a curve in…
… the Economics Department. Students in business courses, however, are perpetually sorted on a bell curve that doesn’t necessarily raise their raw scores. This places them in a state similar to…
… students in “weeder” LSA classes in the sense that one student’s gain is inherently another’s loss. The curve is as follows: Grades for all core classes in the Business School are distributed with less…
… than 40 percent of students receiving an A- or above, less than 90 percent receive a B or above, and over 10 percent receiving a B- or below. The problem with this grading system isn’t in…
… numerical outcomes — the Business School’s curve doesn’t impact students’ overall GPAs significantly. The average sophomore transfer to the program comes in with a 3.7 GPA and the Business School…

















































