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SENATE COMMITTEE ON

EXAMINATION AND GRADING PRACTICES

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TERMS OF REFERENCE

1.

To recommend to Senate grading and examination practices

which are designed to ensure reasonable equitability

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.

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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.

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.