Difference between Grading and Scaling

Grading

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To assign scores to the components of an academic test.

Scaling

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The removing of the scales of fishThe formation of a layer of scale on a surfaceThe removal of a layer of scale from a surfaceThe measurement of dimensions using a scaleThe expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities

Example sentence: Certainly, some of the anti-bank rhetoric has shifted a little bit, but on either side of the aisle, there seems to be different tacts. On one side of the aisle, you see a proposed scaling back of Dodd-Frank. On the other, a proposed reinstatement of Glass-Steagall.