SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
S.38
MEMORANDUM
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ALL SENATORS
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE SENATE AGENDA
Subject ..... COMMITTEE ..ON. ..TE.RMS...OF.. REFERENCE.SUB-
MITTED BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON
I. B. KELSEY
From
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DIRECTOR OF SECRETARIAT SERVICES
Date
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.JUNE.. 26,1970..................................................................
At a meeting of the Senate Agenda Committee held on
Wednesday, June 24, 1970, the Committee recommended:
1.
That Senate adopt the Terms of Reference submitted
by the Senate Committee on Examination and Grading
Practices as outlined in this paper; and
2.
That the Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Examination and Grading Practices, Dr. L. Boland,
be present at the Senate meeting of July 6, 1970
to speak to the paper.
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SENATE Co:iti FJ.TEE ON EXAMINATION' AND
GRADING PNAcTICI;s
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Rt'1S OF 1E]?ERENCE
1.
To recommend to Senate grading and examination practices
which are designed to ensure reasonable e(Jultal)ility in
(a) the assignment of grades within courses and across
courses, (b) the use of grades, and to ensure the internal
and external credibility of grades given at Simon Fraser
University.
2.
To keep in review the gradings assigned in order to
identify significant discrepancies in such grades, to
bring these to the attention of Senate, the faculties,
and departments concerned with a View to reducinB wide
divergences in future.
3.
To recommend to Senate appropriate methods for equating
grades so that summary measures of scholastic standing
utilized are equitable for students, for such purposes
as awarding scholarships on the basis of academic merit.
4.
To recommend to Senate appropriate implementation proced-
ures for policies approved by Senate.
N 0 T E
The Committee will not attempt to make decisions in the case
of individual grades assigned any student, but may consider
information derived therefrom in developing appropriate
policies for recommendation to Senate to correct major in-
equities in future.
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(;XAD1NC i'RAC;'J:i:CES
The following specific c)iargcs 1iz!ve been placed before the committee:
(a)
A continual monitoring of the grading practices.
(b)
A thorough cons:i.dera ticni of the mat:t:ers raise.(] in Paper S.
375,
particular]'), some corrective
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en to reduce the wide
divergences in departmental grading practices
with report: back
to Senate before the end of the Summer Semester
70-2.
(Paper
S.375
is a report of the Senate Committee on Scholarships,
13w: sanes and Award s)
(c) A
consideration of the items raised in Paper S.379 (K.Rieckhoff)
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(d) A
considèration of the directlyrelated problems arising from
Paper S.378.
(Paper 3.378 contains recommendations of A.Nitmnn concerning
PSA grading problems, with Senate having approved Recommendation
2a.
The motion approved by Senate is silent on the position of
students given credit without grades, who may have applied for
scholarships).
