Thanks for your questions. I will try to answer them
Seems like a very verbose (and less easy to read) way of saying that you want the student to be able to choose which courses and associated grades appear on the transcript, somewhat analogous to “score choice” with sat scores, or some types of occupational licensing tests where it only matters that you eventually passed, not how many times you tried and failed before.
Every time a student enters a grade on the transcript the number of times taken would be entered, it is part of the evaluation.
Some questions that you may want to answer:
• If the student has earned a degree with a major, would you require that the student show courses with passing grades that fulfill the degree and major requirements? Obviously, this would not include failed courses, but some students may not want to show c or c- grades that may have been used to fulfill requirements.
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• To improve a required grade in a major a student could take the course again for a better grade, which might take more time depending when the course is taught again, it is the student’s choice.
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• Some situations may require or prefer non-slow learning. A student with a history of needing to take courses multiple times before passing may be less desirable to employers or subsequent schools than a student with a history of passing each course the first time. Do you consider this not to be a valid concern?
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• Someone viewing the transcript seeing multiple times a course was taken would take that into consideration. The student can be advised how repetition of courses might be viewed, deciding would still be up to the student.
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• If a student’s transcript shows an apparently light course load some semesters (especially at a college where full time enrollment is the norm, i.e. Not community colleges or local/region based commuter universities where part time enrollment is common), then would those looking at the transcript assume that there were failed or otherwise hidden courses those semesters? That could cause students who actually did enroll part time and did not fail any courses to struggle with the assumption that the “missing” courses were hidden failed courses.
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• As mentioned, all the times a course was taken will be on the transcript this is not like a part time student transcript with no repetitions.
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• If course/grade choice on transcripts leads to more grade inflation in reported/exposed grades, then some situations could have greater compression at the top of the scale, resulting in selection being made more on the basis of other factors which may or may not be better correlates to the desired merit and achievement that is the (at least nominal) goal of the selection process. How would you address that?
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• Choosing transcript entries would not inflate evaluations by instructors; it would result in a better GPA. I would agree a student taking a heavy load in a heavy program getting excellent evaluations first time would look the most impressive. My proposals would allow any student to assemble the best transcript they can by putting their best face forward with no deceptions concerning what is shown. They would appear as a slow learner, but determined to do their best.
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I have been verbose in trying to describe what I believe to be one of two student rights. The other right is a complete critique of all work including the final. I did a critique and explanation of grade levels. I addressed the right of grade entries as best as I could by helping students keep (F) off their transcripts.