Observed tsunami heights are used for both supplementary tsunami information and changing grades or areas of tsunami warnings/advisories.
JMA also monitors sea-level data observed with 172 tide gauges and 12 GPS buoys (there were 11 at the time of the earthquake, and this increased to 12 in May 2011), and they are used for changing grades and areas of tsunami warnings/advisories.
I hear they're even driving college professors crazy by calling them up and asking for extensions on their kids' term papers, requesting make-up tests, and, if you can believe it, changing grades.
In summary, one strategy for changing grading is to balance accuracy-based grading with the awarding of some proportion of the grade based on student effort and participation.
Changing grading in this way has the potential to promote student practice, incentivize in-class participation, and avoid some of the documented negative consequences of grading.
A third practice is grade inflation, in which teachers lower the grading curve, for example, changing a grade of C from 70%to50%0% correct, so more students get a passing grade.
In court, Mr. Koutsoutis read through a lengthy account of what he had done to help eight students, including changing one grade from an F to an A-minus and falsely noting on the grade change form that the student had "completed missing course work".
"We're not talking about changing the grade where the kid got it wrong to make it right".
And in the Piscataway School District, Superintendent Ronald E. Bolandi said that changing the grade configuration of the schools there helped create more diversity in the classroom.
The officials declined to discuss who in particular was being investigated or what the motive for changing a grade could be.
