Standards Committee  
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AY     :  2006-2007
Meeting:  First
Date   :  October 9, 2006 
Time   :  11:45-12:30 
Place  :  Large Conf Room GITC 4415.
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   Minutes of Standards Commitee Meeting.
                  by
         Alex Gerbessiotis
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1 Meeting started at 11:45am
2 Present: Andrew Sohn, Vincent Oria, and 
           Alex Gerbessiotis (chairing the meeting)
3 Agenda Item: Grading standards

4 Discussed history and data collected by IRP and given 
  to then Chair (N. Gehani, Spring 06) and 
  Alex Gerbessiotis last March 06.

5 Recommendations voted unanimously by the three members
  include the following guidelines for lower-level and
  upper-level undergraduate, and graduate courses.

                      Grading Standards for 

     Undergraduate classes                  Graduate classes
     100-level            300-level           500-level
       and                  and                 and
     200-level            400-level           600-level

     [Table 1]            [Table 2]            [Table 3] 


  A   up to 15%     A      up to 20%       A     up to 25%
  B+  up to 15%     B+     up to 20%       B+    up to 25%
  B   up to 15%     B      up to 20%       B     up to 30%

  C+  up to 20%  C+/C/D/F  up to 40%      C+/C/F up to 20%
  C   up to 20%          
  D/F up to 15%

6  These guidelines are in line with current practice
   (statistics obtained from study cited in 4) 
   whose summary is given below

  Course  A       B+      B       C+      C       D       F
  100     12.6%   8.6%    9.4%    6.8%    6.3%    3.4%    9.8%
  200     23.6%  13.7%   16.7%    9.4%   10.2%    5.4%    9.0%

  300     22.7%  14.7%   17.8%    9.8%   10.9%    5.1%    6.1%
  400     35.7%  14.3%   15.6%    7.8%   10.0%    3.8%    4.6%

  500     20.5%   9.2%   11.4%    2.6%    2.9%    0.4%    2.2%
  600     39.7%  23.9%   18.9%    6.1%    3.2%    0.0%    2.4%

  Total   28.2%  15.8%   15.6%    7.5%    7.3%    2.9%    5.7%

   [Note : row numbers add up to less than 100% because
           W/S/ etc are not shown]

7  Discussion concluded at 12:30pm.
8  Next meeting and future agenda items were discussed.
9  Next meeting will take place (provisionally)
   Monday Oct 23, 2006, same place and time.

10 Agenda items for next meeting:
    Standards for Email/Web contact of faculty members.
    Listing of PhD students at www.cs.njit.edu

11 Meeting was adjourned at 12:34pm.


Minutes compiled by
Alex. Gerbessiotis.