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.
Colleges and universities that use narrative evaluations
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- Alverno College
- Antioch College (Letter grades are provided to student upon request)
- Bennington College (Letter grades are available in addition to narrative evaluations upon request on a per course basis)
- Brown University (Narrative course performance report optionally given in addition to letter grade)
- Burlington College (Students are provided an option for traditional transcripts.)
- The Evergreen State College (Letter/number grades are never used)
- Fairhaven College
- Goddard College (Letter/number grades are never used)
- Hampshire College (Letter/number grades are never used for Hampshire students, students in the Five College interchange can get letter grades when their home institution requires it)
- Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, University of Redlands
- New College of Florida (Letter/number grades are never used)
- New Saint Andrews College (Short evaluations in addition to a system of Latin letter grades)
- Northeastern University School of Law (School of Law only, letter/number grades are never used)
- Oxford University (Short evaluations in addition to letter grades)
- Prescott College (Letter grades are available in addition to narrative evaluations upon request on a per course basis)
- Residential College, University of Michigan (Letter/number grades are assigned by request, evaluations by default)
- St John's College (Known as the Don Rag; letter grades are recorded and available by request)
- Sarah Lawrence College (Letter grades are provided to student upon request)
- Soka University of America (Narrative evaluations and P/NP grade for up to 5 courses)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (Narrative evaluations are given in addition to letter grades)
- University of Washington: Community, Environment, and Planning (CEP major only, narrative transcripts compliment the Pass/Fail on the UW transcript)
- Yale Law School (Letter/number grades are never used)
High schools that use narrative evaluations
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- Lehman Alternative Community School (Grades are never used)
- The Urban School of San Francisco (Extensive narratives; GPA is provided at end of year and trimesterly from 11th grade onward)
- Hamden Hall Country Day School (Short narratives in addition to number grade)
- The Oakwood School in Los Angeles (Narratives in addition to letter grade)
- Hopkins School (Short narratives in addition to letter/number grade)
- The Met in Rhode Island: [1] (Narratives are converted to grades for college admissions purposes)
- Wildwood Secondary School in Los Angeles: [2] (Narratives are converted to grades for college admissions purposes)
- San Roque High School in Santa Barbara, Ca Narratives in addition to letter grade)
- Jefferson County Open School in Lakewood, CO (Letter/number grades are never used)
- StoneSoup School, Fl (Narrative GPA constructed at end of 12th grade)
- Youth Initiative High School: [3] (Grades are never used)
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