Cash Bonuses
I believe that giving out money to students and teachers that do well in the end of level testing is an inspirational idea. It will help the students stay motivated and they will want to learn in order to achieve the goal. It will also give teachers the motivation to instruct us better and help all the children learn equally. Now leading up to my essay I hope you will understand how well this could help the students and teachers throughout the world.
If people did not have goals in the world, would we have made it as far as we have today? In the world today if teachers did not have goals, where would they get their motivation to teach the students? Teachers have a little bit of motivation to teach the students today. They do not always try to teach every student to the fullest, but if every students did well on the end of level testing and the teachers got a raise for it, they would have a lot more motivation to teach every student to the best they can. The only way the teacher would get a raise was if every single student went up in there end of level testings. Have you ever thought that if the students had something to work for in that day instead of 20 years down the road that they would work harder? Students work hard and have their goals in life, but they are much more stressed out than people realize. It makes it much harder for them to reach their goals with everything that goes on with each individuals teenager life. With that little bit of money that they could work towards, it would help with their stress and make them work harder on learning. Besides the teachers and the students, the district of all the schools also has a criteria that they have to meet. They have to take care of each student in each s...
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...would have a lot more efforts than students have right now, which is something that we really need today.
Giving teachers and students money at the end of the year would really help them accomplish much more than they would ever think they could do. If you give people a little push with something in life it will show how great and amazing they could be. I hope my essay answered any questions that you thought of throughout reading it. In my personal opinion I would think it was an wonderful idea and that every school should definitely consider it.
Work Cited
Hout, Michael; Elliot, Stuart; Fueh, Sara. “Do High-Stakes Tests Improve Learning?” Issues online in Science and Technology. A Publication of National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, University of Texas at Dallas. Fall 2012. http://www.issues.org/29.1/michael.html
The practice of offering incentives for charitable acts is very common because it is an effective way to get people to donate time and/or money. Although I grant that the idea that incentives are morally wrong because people are acting out of self interest rather than out of wanting to do the right thing, I still maintain my view that self interest is a natural part of being a human and it is inevitable that we will take into consideration how things will benefit ourselves as well as others. The exchange of donations for grades or any other kind of reward is what I may argue ethically and morally correct because humans are not only motivated to do good, but we are also acting in good faith by taking the incentives because normally they are minimal in comparison to the donation they are making so the result is still greatly an act of kindness.
“Beginning in 2007, his [Roland Fryer Jr.] project paid out $6.3 million to students in 261 urban schools...from low-income families” (Sandel 52). As a result, paying students for good grades has an impact on many people, not only students but teachers as well. Students should be paid for good grades because they will be able to save the money they earn for the future, it will motivate them to do well in school, and it will increase their scores on AP exams. With the money that students earn for their good grades, they can save it for their future. According to student Brett Upperman, “‘Kids need money so we can save it for college.
High stakes testing has taken over every school curriculum from kindergarten through twelfth grade; teachers are often expected to “teach to the test.” Students are suffering due to a strict curriculum that is based solely on passing “the test.” Many wonder if high stakes testing is really worth the many sacrifices students and teachers must make. The high stakes testing curriculum deprives many students of valuable learning opportunities and much needed academic training.
I looked at my classmates, some of whom were talking, sleeping, or simply bored. Suddenly, I realized what my utopia would contain. Of course, my class's lapse in attention was only temporary. But what of those consistently apathetic students and tedious classes? What would happen if every student in the classroom were involved, inquisitive, and motivated?
Many high school students have a job that they go to after school which takes up their time that they could be using for homework and studying. If we were to pay these students for their good grades then they would no longer have the need for a job and could get even better grades and would even be able to take harder classes because of the extra time they would have to study and for homework. With the extra time that students would receive they could progress their education even
High stakes testing does not accurately determine a student’s intelligence. In 1999, the National Academy of Sciences researched the appropriate and inappropriate uses of tests. They agreed that “no single test score can be considered a definitive measure of a student’s knowledge”(http://www.allianceforchildhood.net/news/histakes_test_position_statement.htm).
Did you know that schools in some places are actually giving kids money for good grades? If schools wish students to be self-motivated and have a desire for learning because it’s valuable to them, then schools should not pay students for excellent grades. Paying students for good grades can lead to kids having pressure to earn good grades. In addition, the students who are payed will not succeed academically in the long run. Also, they are not self-motivated so when they are not getting paid they will stop trying. From pressuring to get good grades, not succeeding academically in the long run, and not having self-motivation, there are several negative effects of paying students for marvelous grades.
Stecher, “The net effect of high-stakes testing on policy and practice is uncertain. Researchers have not documented the desirable consequences of testing—providing more instruction, working harder, and working more effectively—as clearly as the undesirable ones—such as negative reallocation, negative alignment of classroom time to emphasize topics covered by a test, excessive coaching, and cheating. More important, researchers have not generally measured the extent or magnitude of the shifts in practice that they identified as a result of high-stakes testing.” Which means that in completion no test is truly valid or reliable for there are too many mistakes to be had by either the test takers or the Test
Although learning has its own rewards, some students respond better to money. This essay explains how students will be paid and the reasons that they should receive money for getting good grades. Some reasons that students should be paid are: if students received rewards for having good grades, fewer students would drop out, graduates would be better educated, people would seek higher education, less crime would be committed, less people would rely on the government, and graduates would be more qualified for better jobs. In 2009, an experiment by MDRC was conducted in two community colleges in Louisiana State for low-income students. One group of students was offered $1,000 each semester if they could attend college at least half time, and maintain an average above a C while another group did not receive the supplement.
If every school across America paid their students for going to school it would be more beneficial than counterproductive. There are just so many ways it could help the kid’s future, their current families, and their education all together. A student will grow up with the knowledge and understanding that if an employee works hard and persevere, they will be rewarded and the amount of work you do will be worth the effort. And with that attitude, the young scholar will enter society and the work force with a positive attitude. Hopefully the cycle will continue, and in theory will cause a great and prosperous society where hard work and determination are the most valued traits of its citizens.
“All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way”, this quote by William G Spady, a sociologist, gives a brief yet thoughtful description why standardized testing is not the way to go. Sending your child to school was always so that he or she could learn and get a good education but that’s not the case anymore; it’s all about how well he or she does on their test. Instead of the government forcing and pressurizing students to take the standardized testing, there are many alternative ways that will allow students to enjoy taking part of assessments and learn more. I propose a new form of testing that will allow students to be more creative and better their problem solving skills which is game based assessments.
In conclusion, students should be paid to do well in school because it has many benefits to the student. Those benefits include motivation to get good grades, the money would help the student financially, and the student would learn how to manage their money more effectively. School is a big part of every person’s life, so it should be more rewarding to the
Testing is one of the big issues in our education system. The idea that the whole school curriculum should be planned around tests is a foolish one, if we want to get a quality education that we can actually learn something valuable from. Having students cram empty facts and memorize test answers is not teaching them it is just encouraging more stress and late nights. On some occasions, tests are a necessary evil to see if the student has actually learned anything from what they have been taught, but to gear the whole class a...
For many years, school systems and parents all over America have been asking- does high school testing measure a student’s knowledge fairly, accurately, and do they benefit the student. The tests do not accurately measure a student’s true academic ability. Furthermore, testing does not always fairly measure a student’s knowledge. High-stakes testing only adds stress to a student’s life. Studies have proven that testing is not beneficial to a student’s educational growth. Testing in high school is affected by different factors; therefore results can be unreliable and not beneficial to the growth of students.
Goodman, Paul. “A Proposal to Abolish Testing.” Forming a Critical Perspective, Ed, Ann Spurlock. 1st. Boston, MA: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2010. 191-193. Print.