Recently, the school newspaper of Peking University published an article "Giving Up Grade Points - Grade Evaluation Reform in "Biology"" to investigate the implementation of the school's performance evaluation reform, which has aroused widespread heated discussions.
The article shows that under the pressure of intense academic assessments, some students spend a lot of time trying to improve their overall grades by one or two points. In order to change this situation, the School of Life Sciences of Peking University has launched a pilot reform, abandoning the GPA ranking and implementing a "grading" assessment method.
GPA (Grade Point **ERAGE) is the key indicator for domestic universities to evaluate students.
GPA calculations multiply the grade points for each course by the credits, add them up and divide them by the total number of credits to arrive at the average grade, so courses with different credits are weighted differently in the GPA. (Note: There are differences in the calculation methods of GPA in different schools, and the official ** of each university shall prevail).
Peking University biology students in the laboratory. **Peking University Newspaper.
Many colleges and universities are trying to cancel grade points!
According to the official capital education of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, in recent years, some colleges and universities have begun to try to cancel grade points and implement the grade evaluation reform of the grading system, that is, the letters A, B, C, D, F and other letters are used to indicate the performance level of students, instead of using the 100-point system or the grade point system.
In 2015, Tsinghua University announced a comprehensive overhaul of the existing academic evaluation system, starting from the 2015 undergraduate and graduate students, with 12 grades such as A, B, C, D, and F to record students' grades, instead of a 100-point system.
On May 20, 2019, Tsinghua University released a GPA reform plan, which proposes that "the evaluation of students' academic level is the academic right of teachers, and the academic affairs department respects the academic judgment of teachers and does not set instructive excellent rate indicators in the evaluation of grades". At the same time, in 2019 and the first undergraduate students, there will no longer be a "equal percentage".
The School of Life Sciences of Peking University has adopted a "grading" assessment method since the 2020 class. The plan clearly shows that the GPA will no longer be calculated, and all students will replace the GPA with the excellent rate (A%) and the excellent rate (AB%), and the students' grades will be divided into five grades: A, B, C, D, and F.
For the GPA required by students applying to study abroad, the college will provide a certificate stating that a hierarchical evaluation method is used.
In addition to Peking University and Tsinghua University, universities such as East China Normal University and ShanghaiTech University have also adopted a hierarchical evaluation system, but at the same time, they have also retained a 100-point system to facilitate the conversion and archiving of grades.
Giving up GPA is for
Set aside time for quality improvement
Before the implementation of the grading system, the School of Life Sciences of Peking University organized three questionnaire surveys of students, and the results showed that the support rate reached 88%.
Wang Shiqiang, deputy dean of the School of Life Sciences at Peking University, said, "If a course can score more than 85 points, we think that the knowledge mastery is good enough, and there is no need to spend a lot of effort to achieve more than 95 points." "The purpose of the School of Life Sciences' hierarchical system for undergraduates and the waiver of GPA is to leave more time for students to improve their quality.
Comprehensive Capital Education (ID: BJEDUNEWS), China Youth Daily (ID: ZQBCYOL), Guangming**, Journal of Peking University, etc.
*: People's **WeChat***
Editor: Xie Yongli.
Process Editor: Guo Dan.