An Historical Study of Examinations and Grading Systems in Early American Universities: A Critical Study of the Original Records of Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Mount Holyoke, and Michigan from Their Founding to 1900 |
Contents
PREFACE xi | 1 |
EARLY ATTEMPTS TO EVALUATE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT | 8 |
THE GROWTH OF GRADING SYSTEMS | 41 |
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academic aggregate aims Annual Report appointed assigned attainment attempt average mark Cambridge candidates College of William course degree demerit departments Diary of Ezra divisions elective system exam examining committee expressed Ezra Stiles given grading systems graduation Harvard College Harvard Faculty Records Harvard University Holyoke Female Seminary Ibid idea inations indicate individual institutions instructors January 22 June June 24 Latin Literary Diary marking system Mary Faculty Reports Mary Lyon maximum mark ment methods of evaluation Michigan Faculty Records Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke Female Mount Holyoke Seminary oral examination Oration Overseers-Harvard Oxford passed present President Eliot President of Harvard President Stiles Professor public examinations rank recitations regulations scale of merit scholars scholarship Senior standards student subjects summa cum laude term tion tutors University of Michigan vard Voted William and Mary written examinations Yale College Yale Faculty Records Yale Trustee Records