Importance Of Grading The Grading System

Grading the Grading System

My education began in kindergarten at Faith Christian School. I don’t remember too much from kindergarten. Looking back from now Kindergarten was probably the easiest time of my life. Not a care in the world, did not have any responsibility. As a kid I always did well in school. My very first report card showed that I did well in all of my subjects. Kindergarten report cards are usually broken down into two major components: academic skills and social ones. (Kindergarten Report Cards ) When it came to academics I did great, got good grades. The social skill not so much, I was always very talkative ,as I am now. I always had to be the center of attention, and do whatever it would take even if it involved disrupting

I focused more on what everyone thought about me, instead of getting good grades. The last semester of my Junior year my Dad and I talked about getting a car. My dad told me “you cant get a car unless you have good grades, if you have bad grades your insurance will go up”. I had a 1.6 GPA and needed a 3.0. I had never tried harder for school. I turned from a kid who never did homework, and never studied for anything, to a kid who did all her homework and studied for everything. As it turned out the more work and effort I put in the worse my grades got. Quizzes would be given back to me with grades so low that I could not understand it. The first few lower grades sent me into shock, I had no idea how to respond. Literally, I was traumatized. How was I going to improve my GPA when I worked so hard for a worse

Students make their own goals and see their own progress toward their own learning goals. "In a collaborative classroom, assessment means more than just assigning a grade. It means evaluating whether one has learned what one intended to learn, the effectiveness of the learning strategies…and whether future learning is needed and how that learning might be realized"(What is the collaborative classroom). The assessment in the collaborative classroom is also less threatening than in the traditional classroom because of the learning process instead of