Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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t is rewarding to reach the top, nutwhen you fall short, by a mere vercent or two, and receive a Erade equivalent to work ten per- ent below your goal, competitive pirit is greatly diminished. HE whole point grading stem we labor under presently J.C.B.C. is not a unique fea- .1re at colleges and universities, ut to the majority of Broward udents it represents a new con- pt in grading. This system is ased on a grade scale of zero nrough four as follows: 0-F - 0-59 22' 1-D - 60-69 QL 2-C - 70-79 fi 3-B - 80-89 Si-V 4-A - 90-100 Qi iAs you can readily see, this l ale gives both the students and e faculty great leeway, in so auch as grading is concerned. tome consider this system too nient, others consider it too vere. The nature of their out- ook is many times based on the ffect the scale has had on their .grade point average. Other stu- llents complain that at times the instructors have raised the per- entages in the scale, as some in- ructors feel, and justifiably so, at 90 Si is too low a grade to ate a four point. 1 Functioning under the scale, a tudent may obtain a grade equiv- ilent to a B in a course for work iveraging either 79.5 fb or 89.41 . his wide span for a single grade quite beneficial to the student lust conquering a B by five 'enths of a percent, but a blow 0 the student who averages al- most ten points better and gets 'he same grade for Work of su- Derior quality. Many of the supporters of the whole point system feel that it provides a uniform grade scale for all the courses on campus, but what of the instructor who grades more severely? His stu- dents are not actually on a uni- form scale with the rest of the J.4C.B.C. campus. The whole point system does, however, have some beneficial features. Being a two year campus, Broward students must transfer to complete their educations. This whole point scale does not need to be recomputed at the school to which the student transfers. The grades are accepted as they stand, being readily use- 1l. able by mechanical minds both here and at another campus. The whole point system is both mechanically functional and char- itable. Charitable, in that it af- fords a high grade point average to a border-line student, giving him the same grade as his harder working, often more ambitious, counterpart. Does this charity really help both students? Both the hard working student and hiz more lackadaisical counterpart stand a good chance of receiving the same grade, be it a two, three. or a four. This system could and sometimes does, deter the incen- tive of an ambitious student. Education is a challenge to the individual, an enjoyable romp through the learning process in open competition with our fellow students. Our grading scale, with each whole point representing such a Wide range and quality of work is not conducive to open intellectual competition. It is re- warding to reach the top, but when you fall short, by a mere percent or two, and receive a grade equivalent to work ten per- goal, competitive diminished. cent below your spirit is greatly Many large colleges and uni- versities use the half point grad- ing system, somewhat equivalent to the plus and minus systems in lower educational facilities. This system presents a wide range of grades or so to speak a larger choice of rewards for work ac- complished. Each half point is an extra in- centive to the student. a spark of incentive when, he knows that his hard work will be graded in proportion to that of his fellow students. This system, though less open handed and charitable than our whole point system, would provide Broward students with a sense of satisfaction for a job well done. As each student strives to achieve, he will be rewarded equivalent to the quality of the work he has done. 0 O 1.0 1.0 2.0 1.5 3.0 2.0 4.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 If you intend to labor. under which system would you labor best? 7