In education, narrative evaluation is a form of performance measurement and feedback which can be used as an alternative or supplement to grading. Narrative evaluations generally consist of several paragraphs of written text about a student's individual performance and course work. The style and form of narrative evaluations vary significantly among the educational institutions using them, and they are sometimes combined with other performance metrics, including letter and number grades and pass/fail designations. A grade in education can mean either a teachers evaluation of a students work or a students level of educational progress, usually one grade per year (often denoted by an ordinal number, such as the 3rd Grade or the 12th Grade). This article is about evaluation of... A grade in education can mean either a teachers evaluation of a students work or a students level of educational progress, usually one grade per year (often denoted by an ordinal number, such as the 3rd Grade or the 12th Grade). This article is about evaluation of...

Colleges and universities that use narrative evaluations

• New College of Florida (Grades are never used)
• Hampshire College (Grades are never used)
• The Evergreen State College (Grades are never used)
• University of California, Santa Cruz (Narrative evaluations are given in addition to letter grades)
• Sarah Lawrence College
• Bennington College
• Fairhaven College

The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... New College of Florida State University System of Florida FAMU FAU FGCU FIU FSU NCF UCF UF UNF USF UWF New College students overlooking the former Ringling Estate The New College of Florida is a public honors college for the state of Florida, located in Sarasota on the former Charles... Hampshire College is an experimenting private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. ... The Evergreen State College The Evergreen State College is an accredited public baccalaureate college, founded in 1967 in the state capital, Olympia, Washington. ... The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC or UC Santa Cruz) is a coeducational public university located in Santa Cruz, California, USA. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California. ... Founded in 1927, Sarah Lawrence College is a co-educational, four-year liberal arts college. ... Bennington College Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont. ... Fairhaven College is an interdisciplinary liberal arts college of Western Washington University. ...

High schools that use narrative evaluations

• Lehman Alternative Community School (Grades are never used)
• The Urban School of San Francisco (Grades are never used)

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External link

• The Case for Narrative Evaluation: Promoting Learning Without Grades
• History and explanation of narrative evaluation system at Santa Cruz