Grading Standards
What kind of standard will be applied?
Subjective assessment draws upon the instructor's professionally developed awareness of quality in academic or other work. This may be essential for assessing with validity, because some outcomes require sensitivity to context and thus cannot be assessed in a fixed way across contexts. Objective assessment, in contrast, relies on quantitative scales that could apply to description of student work or performance. [IUPUI]
Therefore, grading the evaluation tools for INLS718 is necessarily a subjective effort and a grade will generally mean the descriptors in the table below.
The table below shows the standard for grading used in this class.
To be explicit, when averaging grades for the semester, we will round off to two decimal places. The resultant number must equal the lower number in a grade range to reach the minimum necessary to get that letter grade. A 94.99 is a P/A-, a 95.00 is an H/A, for example.
| Grad | Undergrad | Points | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| H | A | 95 > | Mastery of course content at the highest level of attainment that can reasonably be expected |
| P | 80-94 | A totally acceptable performance ... | |
| A- B+ B B- |
92-94 87-91 83-86 80-82 |
... demonstrating an adequate level of attainment | |
| L | 60-79 | A marginal performance in the required exercises ... | |
| C+ C C- D+ D |
77-79 73-76 70-72 67-69 60-66 |
... demonstrating a minimal passing level | |
| F | F | < 60 | For whatever reasons, an unacceptable performance |
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