Competition For Grades
In the world today competition is all around. In sports, much fierce
competition is shown. All athletes compete for one thing and one thing
only, which is a national championship. Competition also exists in the
workplace. Employees will try and beat the other employee for the highest
rank in the business. However, out of all of this competition, the most
intense, exists in school. Students compete for popularity, classes, spots on
sports teams and most of all grades. Through this competition for grades
students negatively suffer socially, mentally and physically. Therefore,
competition for grades has an unhealthy influence on students.
When students compete for grades he suffers with his social life.
When a student begins to compete for a grade, he may result in cheating.
When he cheats off of someone and maybe gets caught, he will get
suspended. Once he gets suspended, his parents will be very disappointed in
him. Once his parents find out they may ground him for a while. He may
then not be able to compete in after school activities and he could lose his
friends. Hence, when a student competes for grades, he suffers socially.
Furthermore, competing for grades has negative physical effects on a
student. When a student begins to over study, he may begin to become very
tired as well. When a student is tired and trying to study, he may resort to
pills. The pills will keep him awake longer. While he stays awake, he may
begin to overeat. When overeating, he may become obese. Becoming
obese may put a lot of extra stress on him. From this extra stress he may
also develop ulcers too. Thus, when students begin to compete for grades, it
has devastating effects on his body.
Moreover, in school, in school students suffer mentally when competing
for grades. A student may develop depression as his grades begin to fall.
When this happens, the student’s self-esteem drops, and he could lose all
self-confidence. Once this happens, a student may make a last ditch effort to
turn it around, and he may begin to over study. When a student starts to
over study, he pushes himself so much that he may go over the edge, and he
In her article, “The Case Against GRADES”, Alfie Kohn discusses the grading system and its faults. She opens her argument with information from an older psychological study that proves the negative impact of the current grading system, and she reinforces this with the proof that “no” research has contradicted this statement. Also, she gives many key reasons including: “Motivation”, “Achievement”, “Quantification”, and “Curriculum”. Kohn supports these topics with other reasearch for why the system is failing the students. She asserts that, “… the absence of grading is a necessary condition for promoting deep thinking and a desire to engage in it.” As support, she offers other solutions and then debunks them by proving that they would not solve
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447). I have often seen this type of behavior in younger students and even elementary schools, the loss of focus and the struggle of completing assignments in a timely manner. The high school students can and may show the same behaviors, but mostly is the constant redirection for off task behavior. For example, I have a student who likes to disrupt class by singing, or trying to talk to his peers and completely gets off task and must be reminded to complete assignments given.
...rs tend to overestimate the degree of unpleasantness of a task” (Lay, 46). Procrastination is a problem that when left unchecked can cause serious problems in every aspect of a person’s life. The solution for students can be as easy as sticking to a goal or as hard as denying themselves a prize when they missed the deadline on a project. The type of solution a person uses depends on what works best for that student, but a schedule to help stay goal positioned never hurt.
Grading System Reform Teachers have always used grades to measure the amount a student has learned. This practice is becoming ineffective. Many students have a wide range of grades, which shows that grades may not show what a student really knows. Therefore, the standard grading system should be replaced. Some reasons why grades should be replaced are bad grades can hinder a child’s performance, grades define who a student is in the classroom, and grades are not an effective way to see if students have learned the material.
...ry, it is easy to notice how people need different things, and require alternate ways of studying. You notice people’s emotions and how they react to their surroundings. Some people need silence, some need music, some need space, some need distraction and some people just do it to look good.
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their exams. They do not have enough sleep, so they can not do well in their
because he or she is studying like crazy and during six years the only thing
By nature, most students are brought up in an academic environment motivated to get A’s and B’s on their report cards. Those grades sometimes don’t thoroughly report how much a student has learned or gained knowledge in each topic. Some instructors throw in factors totally unrelated to learning, when the main objective of academic institutions is to learn. In order to clearly demonstrate how much a student has learned in the classroom, schools should change their current grading system and teach students how to learn.
There are multiple causes when it comes to stressed out students. First consider where the pressure is coming from for students to get good grades. Parents and teachers tend to be the main suspects. Parents want to see their kids succeed in everything they do and grades are no different. Some students see a bad grade as them failing their parents because their parents believe in them so much (Weissbourd, 2011). Teachers have multiple reasons why they want to see their ...