The Executive Council (deans & department chairs) has developed grading guidelines to:
Provide grading guidance to instructors,
Increase grading consistency across courses, and
Give students clear information on academic standards in the Lundquist College.
Philosophy
One of the most important roles students and society expect of teachers and educational institutions is the evaluation of student learning and achievement. Instructors in higher education must distinguish passing from failing and excellence from mediocrity. Failure to make these useful and important distinctions reduces the value of education to students and to society.
Implementation
The table below lists the guidelines developed by the Executive Council. While there is variation across classes in the ability and effort of students, the standards are sufficiently broad to accommodate reasonable variation in performance.
The GPAs listed below are Class GPAs computed by multiplying the number of A, A-, B+, C, etc. grades times the GPA value of each grade. For example consider a class with 40 students with the following grades: 8 A, 14 B, 16 C, and 2 D. The calculation is [(8 x 4.0) + (14 x 3.0) + (16 x 2.0) + (2 x 1.0)]/40 = (32 + 42 + 32 + 2)/40 = 2.70 GPA. Thus, a class GPA of 2.70 can result from many different distributions of grades, i.e., all B's and C's, A's, B's C's and D's etc. There is no quota on the number of A's or B's. Grade distributions in the vast majority of Lundquist College classes last year fit within the grade point ranges listed below.
