{"id":2067,"date":"2017-01-05T08:36:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T07:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=2067\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T19:50:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T19:50:06","slug":"we-should-use-the-american-grading-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/we-should-use-the-american-grading-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"We should use the American grading scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Danish grading system is up for debate again. Education minister S\u00f8ren Pind (V) wants a new grade<\/a> to reward the particularly excellent performance.<\/p>\n

I agree that the Danish scale is bad. But I disagree with S\u00f8ren Pind on exactly what the problem is.<\/p>\n

Let’s try to compare with the American scale:
\nA, A-, B +, B, B-, C +, C, C, D, and F<\/p>\n

There are minor variations within the United States. A few places have A +, others don\u2019t use C-, and some places don\u2019t use the + and – . <\/p>\n

There are, of course, numerical values on the letter grades. In the movie Rainman, Charlie Babbitt tells us that he had a \u20184.0 average\u2019 in high school, but that his father did not appreciate it. He had, in other words, an A in all his subjects. If we were to compare with the Danish scale, it is easier to multiply all the values by three. Then you get: 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 3 and 0<\/p>\n

In comparison, we have the Danish scale: 12, 10, 7, 4, 2, 0, -3.<\/p>\n

I find it hard to see why we need the grade -3. But the real problem with the Danish scale is that differences between grades are way too dramatic. It is very difficult to give grades on a scale with these leaps between grades. This apparently leads to the effect that when you fluctuate between 10 and 12, it might too often land on a 12.<\/p>\n

If we introduced the American scale, it would be easy to explain to the world what our grades mean, and we would have a scale that has survived for almost 100 years in the US.<\/p>\n

uni-avis@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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