Long Term Assignment

Have you ever been in a class where all you do are projects and they are all important grades? Imagine being in a school where instead of having many different small assignments, you have one long term assignment. There will always be someone who does not do as well on the assignment. Those people would not have any way to bring their grade back up because there would be nothing else assigned. This hurts the student by giving them a bad grade in something they may have struggled with even if they worked hard. Long term assignments are not the best way to evaluate students. This way is less effective because you can learn a lot more with multiple assignments, if you do bad on a long term assignment there are no other ways to get your grade up,

Long term assignments are going to focus more on a few specific things. When it comes to many other small tasks you can cover much more material. If it is a subject that a student is not good at or not interested in they may learn a lot more and discover that maybe they do like the subject after all. If they are just not good at the class then the student can learn much more when doing small assignments that focus on more material. For example if the class is something such as Chemistry, they can start with the simple things and move to more complex subjects as the class goes on. If you were doing a long term assignment for this class you may learn a few basic things to begin with, but then you will be thrown in to a big project that you do not know anything about. If you already know what you are doing then the long term assignment would not be a problem. But, you are probably in the class because you don’t know much about

Not only are you doing a big assignment for one class but you could be doing these for four to five classes. When you have this many projects going on at once it can become very hard to get them all done. Yes, you may have a ton of class time to work on these projects and some of these could be group projects, but, if you attend a school that traditionally does long term assignments you would be doing multiple of them at once. This would not be easy. Put yourself in the position of having three projects due in two weeks and none of them are completely finished. They are all important and you don’t know which one to prioritize. It comes down to the day before they are due and you are up at three in the morning trying to finish all three projects to turn in when you go to school. This is not a situation anyone wants to be in and long term assignments are a disaster that should not be used to evaluate