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May 1999; 25 years ago (1999-05) RateMyProfessors.com (RMP) is a review site founded in May 1999 by John Swapceinski, a software engineer from Menlo Park, California, which allows anyone to assign ratings to professors and campuses of American, Canadian, and United Kingdom institutions. [1] The site was originally launched as TeacherRatings.com ...
Class III rapid at Canolfan Tryweryn, Wales. The international scale of river difficulty is an American system used to rate the difficulty of navigating a stretch of river, or a single (sometimes whitewater) rapid. [ 1 ] The scale was created by the American Whitewater Association to evaluate rivers throughout the world, hence international in ...
The American YDS (or 'Yosemite Decimal System') was developed independently by climbers at Tahquitz Peak who adapted the class 5 rating of Sierra Club Class 1–5 system in the 1950s. [4] As a result, the system has a "5" as its prefix which is then followed by a decimal point and a number that starts at 1 and counts up with increasing ...
A 2006 article in The Harvard Crimson reported that only 17 women completed the class between 1990 and 2006, [3] and a 2017 article said that enrollment had been less than 7% female in the previous five years. [30] Math 25 has more women: in 1994–95, Math 55 had no women, while Math 25 had about 10 women in the 55-person course. [7]
Literacy in the United States was categorized by the National Center for Education Statistics into different literacy levels, with 92% of American adults having at least "Level 1" literacy in 2014. [ 1 ] Nationally, over 20% of adult Americans have a literacy proficiency at or below Level 1. Adults in this range have difficulty using or ...
Another policy commonly used by 4.0-scale schools is to mimic the eleven-point weighted scale (see below) by adding a .33 (one-third of a letter grade) to honors or advanced placement class. (For example, a B in a regular class would be a 3.0, but in honors or AP class it would become a B+, or 3.33).
Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner. [ 1 ] Any test in which the same test is given in the same manner to all test takers, and graded in the same manner for everyone, is a standardized test.
Degree of difficulty (DD, sometimes called tariff or grade) is a concept used in several sports and other competitions to indicate the technical difficulty of a skill, performance, or course, often as a factor in scoring. [ 1 ] Sports which incorporate a degree of difficulty in scoring include bouldering, cross-country skiing, diving ...