Why Change Grading Scales Now They Have Always Been The Same?

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Grading Scales? Students frequently stress over the grade that is to portray whether a student does or does not understand the content. These grades are most often portrayed by the standard A, B, C, or D letter grades which define student success. Students often take a less abrasive route when given the option of choosing a topic for a challenging assignment. Receiving a grade seen in the students eyes as good is more important to the student then learning. Often grades cause students to cheat for the fear of a bad score affecting their overall grade. Institutions of learning need to turn away from grading scales which do not represent student success well, and turn towards an option that better suits students and faculty alike.
Grading scales control students more than they accurately portray the students success. The grades cause students to fear that they will not pass which makes them more apped to do their work. Students often lose privileges at home that they would otherwise have if not for a bad grade. Which could make them resent the teacher that gave the student the grade causing relationship issues between students and teachers. Students are also affected by the grades they make after they …show more content…

This is a very good point they have been the same A, B, C, or D grades for as long as anyone can remember. A students great grandparents if asked what each meant would most likely have a good understanding of them. If we change them it would allow us to upgrade to a new system in which could be better interpreted. Which means when evaluating students with the same grade as one another they would be very close in the knowledge of the subject of one another. Do we not want our students to be kept accountable by grades? Students still need to be kept accountable in doing their work. In the same sense you do not want robot students that don't think past what do I have to do on this assignment to get an

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