Grading on a curve isn't just for college papers--many companies use numeric performance reviews and then fit employees to a bell curve. Unlike school, however, an employee's rating can determine ...

Anyone familiar with basic statistics is familiar with the concept of a bell curve. A bell curve is a visual representation of normal data distribution, in which the median represents the highest ...

At UCLA, for whom the bell curve tolls depends on the professor and not much else. The bell curve, a statistical measure of grading, assesses students’ academic performance relative to other students ...

In our region we do annual performance reviews in January. I've already written the performance reviews for my four employees and turned them in to HR. I got an email message back from "Melissa" in HR ...

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Current controversy about standardized tests and the opt-out movement is fed by frustrated parents and teachers who feel tests are missing the point of education. But is frustration sky-high because ...

A bell curve is a graph used to visualize the distribution of a set of chosen values across a specified group that tend to have central, normal values that peak, with low and high extremes tapering ...