lettermarking

lettermarking

1. present participle and gerund of lettermark

lettermarking (uncountable)

1. (dated) A system of grading student's work using letters (e.g. A, B, C, D, F), as opposed to another system such as "pass/fail" or numerical grades.
   • 1927, The journal of educational research - Volume 16, page 342:

     In the case of high schools which use a lettermarking system, the letters were transmuted into numbers by means of keys showing equivalent marks .

   • 1939, William French Bruce, Principles of Democratic Education, page 62:

     In reality this kind of lettermarking system is closely related to its predecessors in having a value range which imitates an employer's wage scale for his workers.

   • 1958, Ralph Knupp Watkins, Techniques of Secondary School Teaching, page 357:

     In some schools, teachers will go through the negative evolution of lettermarking from the satisfactory-unsatisfactory marking without seeming to be aware of the confusion existing in mixing the philosophies underlying the two systems.