I still remember the night before class registration, my freshman spring. Someone showed me the website Rate My Professors, just to check whether the professor for my discrete mathematics class was ...

Many students use Rate My Professors to learn about professors and their teaching styles when selecting classes. However, ...

It’s not uncommon for students to run into issues with their professors. While most professors are supportive of students and invested in their learning, students frequently encounter at least one ...

A professor has the obligation to assign grades in accordance with the guidelines established by the campus at which he or she teaches (“Court Says Public University Can Fire Professor for Refusing to ...

Are today’s college professors easier graders than yesterday’s college professors? Are they giving away grades? Consider the following: * In 1966 at Harvard, 22% of all grades were A’s; in 2003, 46% ...

Students sometimes ask professors to round their grade up to the next highest letter grade. This practice is known as grade bumping. (Photo illustration by Preston Crawley) The end of a semester can ...

Casey Warning logged into his University of Wisconsin-Parkside student account last summer and noticed something odd. His transcript showed he had completed his business law and ethics course and ...

University of Akron officials this week blocked a professor from carrying out his plan to raise female students’ grades as part of what he called a “national movement to encourage female students to ...

Wisdom says that democracy works only by adapting certain inequalities of excellence to qualify its main principle of equality. To expose them, professors have to grade sensibly.

While a professor of statistics at Duke University in the 1990s, Valen E. Johnson devised a sophisticated formula, called the Achievement Index, to get around differences in grading practices among ...

Most professors do not think the repeal of the grade deflation policy will have a marked effect on their grading, according to close to 50 interviews conducted by The Daily Princetonian in the days ...