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Estimated Rank Instead of Exact Rank
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Scarcelli, Robert E. – NASSP Bulletin, 1972
Author is principal of a school that gives estimated rank by quintile, fourths, upper-middle," etc. (SP)
Descriptors: Academic Records, Achievement Rating, College Admission, Student Evaluation
Alternative Methods of Reporting Pupil Progress
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Sapone, Carmelo V.; Giuliano, Joseph R. – NASSP Bulletin, 1977
Descriptors: Academic Records, Achievement Rating, Grading, Individualized Instruction
An Alternative to Exact Rank-in-Class
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Loar, Robert L. – NASSP Bulletin, 1972
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Class Rank, Educational Philosophy, Grading
Initial Experiences of a No-Rank School
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Olsen, Johannes – NASSP Bulletin, 1972
Discontinuing the class rank system has not affected the admission of students to college in this case. (SP)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Administrative Change, College Admission, College Bound Students
Genre Studies in the San Diego City Schools: Accelerating or Tracking?
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Powers, Jeanne M.; Chapman, Paula L. – NASSP Bulletin, 2007
This article contains an analysis of a component of a large-scale reform effort in an urban school district that entailed placing high school students identified as underperforming in literacy in separate classes aimed at accelerating their learning. The relationship between students academic performance and social backgrounds, school…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Educational Change, Urban Schools, Secondary Education
The New Guidelines: Some Comments by an Admissions Officer
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Oliver, E. E. – NASSP Bulletin, 1972
Author sees the guidelines as providing compromise and flexibility to the benefit of students. (Editor)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, College Admission, College School Cooperation
More Informative than Rank-in-Class
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Stephens, John – NASSP Bulletin, 1972
The University School of Milwaukee eliminated class rank and substituted a bar graph system, illustrated and explained in the article. (SP)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Adoption (Ideas), Class Rank, College Admission
What Does RiC Really Mean?
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Newcomer, Elva K. – NASSP Bulletin, 1972
Because of increasing variety in the high school curriculum, rank in class has become meaningless; the author feels that student's grade point average is a truer predictor of college success. (SP)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Counselor Attitudes, Grade Point Average, Grades (Scholastic)
The Facts in the Case: What Colleges Do and Think about Rank-in-Class
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Seyfert, Warren C. – NASSP Bulletin, 1972
Results of a national survey on collegiate use of class rank have been analyzed in terms of the chief characteristics that are associated with differences in a college's practice: 1) public or private support, 2) two- or four-year institutions, 3) size of enrollment, 4) section of country; tables and commentary explain the findings. (Editor)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Admission Criteria, Class Rank, College Admission
Compared to What? A Negative View of Class Rank
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Cavalier, James E. – NASSP Bulletin, 1972
Various reasons are given for the unrealiability of class rank as an indicator of academic success; author is head of a small private college-preparatory school. (SP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Class Rank, College Admission
Assessing the Effectiveness of Program Delivery.
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Hamilton, Stephen F.; Mamary, Albert – NASSP Bulletin, 1983
Urges accurate assessment of program implementation and the determination of student performance in areas not measured by achievement tests. Offers indicators of hard-to-measure levels of achievement in teachers and students, as they have been developed in the Johnson City, New York, Public Schools' mastery learning approach. (JW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Elementary Secondary Education, Mastery Learning
High School Performance as Predictive of College Performance
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Loeb, Jane – NASSP Bulletin, 1972
A review of the literature makes it clear that high school record has been and is a valid and possibly even an increasingly important predictor of college work. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, College Bound Students, Grade Point Average
Guidelines for Working with Grade Point Average and Rank-in-Class
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NASSP Bulletin, 1972
Answers to the major issues that confront secondary schools and colleges in making decisions about the use or non-use of grade point average and rank-in-class as features of the college application/admissions process. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Class Rank, Credit Courses, Grade Point Average
The Facts in the Case: What Secondary Schools Do and Think about Rank-in-Class
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Seyfert, Warren C. – NASSP Bulletin, 1972
Results of a study involving over 800 secondary schools; data presented in tables. (SP)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Class Rank, College School Cooperation, Grade Point Average
One District's Efforts to Eliminate Rank-in-Class
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Zanden, Joseph P. Vander – NASSP Bulletin, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Board of Education Policy, Class Rank
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