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ENGCOMP 3E / WATSON, DANA CAIRNS
English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language For Engineers
How ENGCOMP 3E grades when WATSON, DANA CAIRNS teaches it. ENGCOMP 3E, every instructor WATSON, DANA CAIRNS, every course
Grades, this instructor
3.61adjusted historical GPA, this instructor
63 letter grades across 3 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2024. The course pools every instructor at 3.73 over 194 letter grades.
- Raw average
- 3.57
- The mean of this instructor's recorded letter grades in this course.
- In the A range
- 68.3%
- A+, A and A minus out of 63 letter grades.
- D, F or W
- 1.6%
- D-range and F grades plus withdrawals, divided by letter grades plus withdrawals.
- Taken pass/no pass
- 0%
- No pass/no-pass outcomes are recorded.
Grade distribution
- A+6 / 9.5%
- A23 / 36.5%
- A-14 / 22.2%
- B+12 / 19%
- B3 / 4.8%
- B-1 / 1.6%
- C+1 / 1.6%
- C1 / 1.6%
- C-1 / 1.6%
- D+0 / 0%
- D0 / 0%
- D-0 / 0%
- F1 / 1.6%
Percentages are of the 63 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes. They are excluded from GPA.
Term by term
Raw averages for the terms in this record. A missing term does not establish that this instructor did not teach it. Summer sessions are included when present.
Dashed line: course average across all instructors, 3.73.
One recorded instructorCo-taught, grades shared
Fall 20213.5218 letter grades.
Fall 20223.6022 letter grades.
Fall 20243.5923 letter grades.
Is one term a guide to the next?
Across the measured corpus, the same course and instructor's term averages were strongly correlated, including terms several years apart. That is why the adjustment does not weight recent terms more heavily. This is a dataset-wide pattern, not a promise about this instructor's next class.
Teaching it in Fall 2026
Reading these figures
Raw is the mean of the recorded letter grades. The adjusted historical GPA pulls an instructor's average toward the course's adjusted average, which itself uses a department prior. It is a comparison aid, not a calibrated prediction or a student rating. Small samples carry more uncertainty. All recorded instructor roles are included, and a section is counted only once for this instructor. Grades cannot establish workload or explain why outcomes differed.
What students say
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