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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
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Date ................ May
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of Semester Grades
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Grades must be submitted, according to a Senate approved regulation, within
96 hours of the examination having been written. This gives the Registrar approx-
imately 24 hours to process the results, present them to the Senate Undergraduate
Admissions and Standings Committee, and mail the grades and any decision of the
Committee to the student in time for him to register for the next semester. The
timing leaves no room for a consideration of the results in any one course as they
relate to those in other courses, or in a department as they relate to those in
another department. At the mcment, the sole evaluation that is done on the grades
is individual student oriented and results only in a decision as to the disposition
of the student given the grades he obtained,with no consideration as to whether the
grades are fair and reasonable.
I can see no way in which there would be time on the semester system to
carry out the evaluative task customary at conventional universities where the re-
sults are not sent to the student until they have been through departmental review
committees, faculty committees, university revisions committees and the like, all.
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of which takes 6 weeks or longer. However, I am not sure that such a lengthy re-
view is necessary on the semester system where we are attempting to downgrade the
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importance of formal "final" examinations.
I would recommend the following:
a)
The individual student statement of marks be reviewed as it is now, by the
Senate Undergraduate Admissions and Standings Committee.
b)
A summary of the grades as attached be sent to each member of the faculty.
Where this has been done at other Universities it has had a salutary effect.
upon those markers or departments far out of line. Granted, it has no
effect upon the students represented on the summary statements, but after a
semester or two gross discrepancies would be unlikely..
c)
The Committee of Heads review each semester the summary sheets as attached
and comment on gross anomolies.
d)
The Registrar present to Senate a report as attached for each semester along
with comments from the Committee of Heads. Senate should make recommendations
to the Heads for any changes thought necessary in the way in which the Grading
Scale is being used, or may ask for specific comments from the Head on any
apparent anomolies in his department.
This publication of the summary results will undoubtedly have a centralizing
effect, although I suggest the Senate would-want to make it clear that a review of
the overall pattern of grading is necessary, if only to provide an informal benchmark
for the individual marker, but that Senate has no intention of forcing any rigid
"scaling" system on the University.
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D. P. Robertson
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REGISTRARS REPORT
SPRING SEMESTER GRADES
MAY 1966
NOTES:
1.
The grades shown are before any alterations as a result of
re-reads requested by the students or reviews as carried
out by the faculty independently. Alterations to the grades
as a result of these would not have a marked effect on the
distributions.
2. The "N" grades have not been shown in the distribution. "N"
grades should mean that the student did not write for fear
of failure and could therefore be treated as a failure.
Unfortunately, the registration at the beginning of January
was imperfect and, in the Spring semester at least, an "N"
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grade could just as validly mean that the Registrar's records
were in error and the student was never registered in the
courses and should not have been expected to write the ex-
amination. The "N" grades have been included here as an
auxiliary bit of information, but no conclusions can be
drawn at this time from the size of the group.
D. P.
Robertson
Registrar
May 19, 1966.
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REGISTRAR'S REPORT
May 1966.
SPRING SEMESTER GRADES
a
TOTAL NUMBER
PERCENTAGE SCORING
NUMBER OF
OF STUDENTS
A
B
C
D
F
"N" GRADES
Economics 100-3
350
11
20
23
19
27
31
Economis 152-3
283
4
20
43
18
15
18
Economics
Economics
253-3200-3
224
98
4
5
13
27
35
19
26
15
38
18
29
13
DEPARTMENT OF
ECONOMICS TOTAL
955
7
21
31
19
22
91
English 101-3
476
8
33
44
11
4
84
English 102-3
307
6
38
40
7
9
43
English 103-3
647
8
43
38
7
..•.4
52
English 111-3
277
10
35
34
11
10
36
English 201-3
336
9
47
35
4
5
42
D r RTMENT OF
JSH TOTAL
2,043
8
40
38
8
6
257
Geography 161-3
681
4
23
56
6
11
40
Geography 211-3
100
1
42
37
9
11
4
Geography 221-3
88
8
48
37
6
1
9
DEPARTMENT OF
GEOGRAPHY TOTAL
869
4
28
52
6
10
53
History 101-3
32
--
--
34
41
25
2
History 102-3
408
3
35
.
48
9
5
41
History 103-3
101
3
28
43
10
16
13
History 104-3
279
2
24
52
19
3
15
History 201-3
114
7
24
42
--
27
5
History 202-3
124
2
26
46
8
18
1
D;
S mENT
OF
.
.
.
.
HIORY TOTAL
1,058
3
28
47
12
10
77
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REGISTRAR'S
REPORT
Continued.
(2)
TOTAL NUMBER
PERCENTAGE SCORING
OF STUD
EN TS
A
B
C
D
r
NUMBER OF
F
"N"CJAn1?
MODERN LANGUAGES
French
French
French
French
French
202-3203-3101-3100-3201-3
194
165
1021040
.
60
25
7
1
3
40
4142
25
19
23
--
33
3058
--
28
11.5
11
--
22
8
53
--
26
14
10
1
FRENCH TOTAL.
511
7
31
35
16
11
51
GermanGermanGermanGerman
201-3202-3101-3100-3
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72
48
8
27131910
50
55
3842
25
2933
9
12
10
13
9
--
----
6
--
16
8
1
GERMAN
TOTAL
139
16
42
29
11
2
25
Riari
Rt'
'ian
101-3
100-3
.54
15
1913
2820
35
27
18
13
--
27
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RUSSIAN TOTAL
. 69
18
26
33
17
6
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Spanish
Spanish
Spanish
201-3101-3100-3
55
56
6
33
15
11
33
35
38
17
34
38
1711
10
--
35
--
15
4
SPANISH TOTAL
117
14
36
35
11
4
19
Linguistics-220-3
81
19
48
17
9
7
7
LINGUISTICS TOTAL
81
19
48
17
9
7
7
DEPARTMENT OF
MODERN LANGUAGES
917
11
34
33
14
8
102
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REGISTRAR'S REPORT
continued
(3)
TOTAL NUMBER
PERQNTAGE SCORING
NUMBER OF
OF STUDENTS
A
B
C
D
F
"N"GRADES
Philosophy 100-4
91
5
19
45
20
11
22
Philosophy
202-3
98
7
33
46
12
2
19
Philosophy
205-3
65
16
23
43
15
3
16
DEPARTMENT OF
PHILOSOPHY TOTAL
254
9
25
45
16
5
57
POLITICAL SCIENCE , SOCIOLOGY AND
ANTHROPOLOGY
Pol.Sc. 111-3
219
7
51
30
1
11
1
Pol.Sc. 211-3
119
9
59
19
2
11
13
POL.SC
. TOTAL
338
8
54
26
1
11
14
Sociology 121-3
380
7
62
21
3
7
7
So1ogy 231-3
57
21
27
26
5
21
2
SOCIOLOGY TOTAL
437
9
57
22
4
8
9
DEPARTMENT OF
POL.SC ., SOC.
775
8
56
24
3
9
23
AND ANTHRO. TOTAL
Psychology
Psychology
Psychology
Psychology
Psychology
101-3
102-3
201-3
203-3
204-3
306
294
32
14
62
4
12
9
7
11
-
25
19
28
14
20
39
46
34
65
26
25
13
16
7
19
7
10
13
7
24
36
7
1
2
14
DEPARTMENT
PiOLOCYTOTAL
OF
708
8
22
41
19
10
60
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REGISTRAR'S REPORT
continued
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(4)
TOTAL N1J5ER
PERCENTAGE
SCORING
NUMBER OF
OF STUr NTS
A
B
C
D
F
'!N"GRADES
BIOLOGiAL SCIENCES
BiSc. 102-3
270
24
38
26
8
4
3
DiSc. 203-3
. 189
.
5
38
27
20
10
5
RiSc. 204-3
53
13
36
41
6
4
1
BiSc. 305-3
36
8
22
56
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DEPARTMENT OF
BIOL.SC . TOTAL
548
15
37
30
12
6
12
Chemistry 101-3
159
2
10
63
14
11
28
Chemistry 102-3
271
12
14
42
20
12
14
Chemistry 111-2
82
11
19
56
10
4
7
Chemistry 112-2
207
15
34
28
11
12
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Chemistry 222-2
26
19
31
35
11
4
--
Chemistry 261-3
36
22
14
31
19
14
--
C istry 271-2
29
10
17
31
42
--
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3
C
istry 281-3
29
21
27
24
21
7
2
Chemistry 471-3
4
50
25
25
-- .
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DEPARTMENT OF
CHEMISTRY TOTAL
843
12
20
.
42
16
10
54
Mathematics
101-3
128
18
31
28
9
14
29
Mathematics
111-3
280
12
22
27
19
20
50
Mathematics 112-3
457
10
16
56
11
7
18
Mathematics
213-3
53
15
34
24
2
25
17
Mathematics
214-3
50
12
22
40
10
16
4
Mathematics 221-2
60
13
27
48
5
7
7
DARTMENT OF
MATHEMATICS
TOTAL
1,028
12
-
• 21
42
12
13
125
9
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REGISTRAR'S REPORT
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continued
(5)
TOTAL NUMBER
.. . PERCENTAGE SCORING
OF STUDENTS
A
B
C
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S
Physics
101-3
.
168'
8
13
28
.
16
35
.
39
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hyhy
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cc
c
s
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231-102-
221-
23
4
239
59
15
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13
12
8
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19
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27
2023
36
15
7
.
22
14
7
-
11
4
Physics 232-2
21
.
19
29
52
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DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICS TOTAL
502
9
•
20
26
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24 • •
,
21
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54
Education 201-3
'491
5
11
35
45
6
'•.
3
35
Education 202-3 •
209 .
15 .
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61-
• 23
1
-
3
DEPARTMENT OF
.
5
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SCATIONTOTAL
700
,
12
43
38 •,
5
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38
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