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Article

European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System: An Alternative Way to Calculate the ECTS Grades

Pages 213-227 | Published online: 06 Jan 2011
 

Abstract

The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) has been developed and instituted to facilitate student mobility and academic recognition. This paper presents, discuss, and illustrates the pertinence and the limitation of the current statistical distribution of the ECTS grades, and we propose an alternative way to calculate the ECTS grades attribution in order to improve the ECTS system.

1. The authors extend their gratitude to C. Buret for the English language assistance and the Department of Educational Pedagogy for its financial support.

Notes

1. The authors extend their gratitude to C. Buret for the English language assistance and the Department of Educational Pedagogy for its financial support.

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