{"id":1719,"date":"2018-04-04T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T15:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2018-04-04T16:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:40:01","slug":"why-do-we-use-grades-to-be-a-measure-of-our-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/04\/why-do-we-use-grades-to-be-a-measure-of-our-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we use grad[e]s to be a measure of our knowledge &#038; intelligence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1706\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aw040418-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1706\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aw040418-5-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"Why do we use grad[e]s to be a measure of our knowledge [unclear word] ?\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aw040418-5-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aw040418-5.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why do we use grad[e]s to be a measure of our knowledge &amp; intelligence?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t always this way, as you can learn in this fascinating article about the history of grades: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/history-of-grading\">bit.ly\/history-of-grading<\/a> (BC community access). Grading in the US evolved from European scholastic competitions, which worked something more like sports playoffs; the winners of final brackets went on to be supported by academic institutions for life. Yale was the first in the US to use a 4-point scale: &#8220;2&#8221; was satisfactory. Harvard and William &amp; Mary adopted it. They often included non-academic criteria; a &#8220;0&#8221; at William &amp; Mary meant &#8220;those who learned little or nothing&#8230; on account of excessive idleness.&#8221; K-12 schools followed suit. At first, grades were purely an internal pedagogical tool. Around 1900 as schooling became universal, grading became systematized as way to communicate externally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t always this way, as you can learn in this fascinating article about the history of grades: bit.ly\/history-of-grading (BC community access). Grading in the US evolved from European scholastic competitions, which worked something more like sports playoffs; the winners of final brackets went on to be supported by academic institutions for life. Yale was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/04\/why-do-we-use-grades-to-be-a-measure-of-our-knowledge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why do we use grad[e]s to be a measure of our knowledge &#038; intelligence?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}