Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of lettermark
- dateduncountableA 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.
In the case of high schools which use a lettermarking system, the letters were transmuted into numbers by means of keys showing equivalent marks .
1927, The journal of educational research - Volume 16, page 3422 more examples
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.
1939, William French Bruce, Principles of Democratic Education, page 62In 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.
1958, Ralph Knupp Watkins, Techniques of Secondary School Teaching, page 357
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