UNC-Chapel Hill will introduce contextual grading. According
to UNC professor Andrew J. Perrin:
“Beginning this fall,
all undergraduate transcripts from UNC will include information about the
context of grades alongside the grades themselves. They will contain the median
grade for each class and the percentile range the student’s grade reflects.
Readers of the transcript, including the students themselves, will be able to
determine where the student’s performance falls among her peers. In addition,
the transcript will feature the student’s "schedule-point average,"
or SPA, alongside the familiar grade-point average. The SPA—calculated by
averaging the median grades in the student’s schedule—can be used by transcript
readers as a benchmark to evaluate the meaning, in context, of the GPA.”