narrative evaluation

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

• 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)
• The Evergreen State College (Letter/number grades are never used)
• Fairhaven College
• Hampshire College (Letter/number grades are never used)
• New College of Florida (Letter/number grades are never used)
• 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)
• Reed College (Letter grades are provided to student upon request)
• Residential College, University of Michigan (Letter/number grades are assigned by request, evaluations by default)
• Sarah Lawrence College (Letter grades are provided to student upon request)
• St. John's College (Oral evaluations in addition to letter grades)
• 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

• Lehman Alternative Community School (Grades are never used)
• The Urban School of San Francisco (Grades are never used)
• Hamden Hall Country Day School (Short narratives in addition to number 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)

External links

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

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