Grade Point Average System of Assessment: the Implementation Peculiarities in Russia

The paper analyzes the specificity, as well as flaws and faults of implementing the Grade Point Average (GPA) system of students’ personal assessment in Russian higher schools. Nowadays, the above system is regarded as the basic functional element of educational process organization at the world’s l...

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Main Author: B. A. Sazonov
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Language:Russian
Published: Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University 2015-02-01
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Online Access:https://www.edscience.ru/jour/article/view/103
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description The paper analyzes the specificity, as well as flaws and faults of implementing the Grade Point Average (GPA) system of students’ personal assessment in Russian higher schools. Nowadays, the above system is regarded as the basic functional element of educational process organization at the world’s leading universities. The author summarizes the foreign experience and demonstrates the advantages of the GPA system in comparison with the traditional domestic scale of assessment: full records of student’s assessment, objectivity, activation of responsibility for the results achieved, and self-control motivation. The standard GPA model is demonstrated, its application systemizing both the Russian and European requirements to the higher school graduates. The author suggests his own version of the assessment scale estimating and comparing the quality of education in Russian universities and worldwide. The research findings can be of interest to the specialists in the sphere of quality measurement and educational management.
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spelling doaj-art-93355a1a65d4468ebf7c94f0eb52d6012025-02-03T11:50:33ZrusRussian State Vocational Pedagogical UniversityОбразование и наука1994-56392310-58282015-02-0119153410.17853/1994-5639-2012-9-15-3497Grade Point Average System of Assessment: the Implementation Peculiarities in RussiaB. A. Sazonov0Центр начального, среднего и высшего профессионального образования Федерального института развития образования, г. МоскваThe paper analyzes the specificity, as well as flaws and faults of implementing the Grade Point Average (GPA) system of students’ personal assessment in Russian higher schools. Nowadays, the above system is regarded as the basic functional element of educational process organization at the world’s leading universities. The author summarizes the foreign experience and demonstrates the advantages of the GPA system in comparison with the traditional domestic scale of assessment: full records of student’s assessment, objectivity, activation of responsibility for the results achieved, and self-control motivation. The standard GPA model is demonstrated, its application systemizing both the Russian and European requirements to the higher school graduates. The author suggests his own version of the assessment scale estimating and comparing the quality of education in Russian universities and worldwide. The research findings can be of interest to the specialists in the sphere of quality measurement and educational management.https://www.edscience.ru/jour/article/view/103grade point average systemgrade point averageuniversity rating regalementmajor disciplineacademic progress managementprerequisite levels
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Grade Point Average System of Assessment: the Implementation Peculiarities in Russia
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grade point average system
grade point average
university rating regalement
major discipline
academic progress management
prerequisite levels
title Grade Point Average System of Assessment: the Implementation Peculiarities in Russia
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title_short Grade Point Average System of Assessment: the Implementation Peculiarities in Russia
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grade point average
university rating regalement
major discipline
academic progress management
prerequisite levels
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