Yes, grades are an effective means of motivating students to do their best work. If there were no grades why the students would like to work hard? Do not they want to enjoy luxury and comforts in their youth? Surely, students want to enjoy their youth with luxury and comforts. They can not judge themselves because they have no scale of judgment. It is the instructor only who judges the students comparatively and gives grades to them accordingly. In this way, by receiving their grades students recognize their positions in the class. If their positions came to be low, they then try to achieve higher positions by working hard because they want to achieve their goal of becoming great persons. As it is the nature of all the human beings that no one is ready to accept his weaknesses. Everyone sees his abilities only. Therefore, if students are given proper grades continually, they will be aware of their weaknesses and hence they will alter themselves accordingly by working hard.
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Before we can look at how grading affects learning Farber suggests we look at how it has affected students (333-334). The greatest effect of being graded happens to the individual. Farber asks, “Did you need grades to learn how to drive?” We have become “grade junkies.” Without the grades students can’t learn (333). Vogel agrees that students believe grades are the motivating factor in learning, but only for the money. Students want the grades because high GPA’s equal high paying jobs (338-339). Another negative effect of grades is that students want the best grade with the least amount of learning but this causes conflict with professors because the professor’s goal is different compared to the student’s (339). Grades have positive effects too. Farber believes that grades give us discipline, but not self-discipline. True self-discipline comes from wanting something not coercion (334). Farber defines self-discipline as revising one paragraph all night because one enjoys it (334.)
The article “How to Be a Success” by Malcom Gladwell speaks about how success is something that can be achieved if you put the time and work into it, and how success is not achieved overnight but rather through long hours of constant practice. His article is targeted to more than one group of individuals. The groups of individuals that his article targets are teenage students, young adults, adults, people who want to become an expert, or want to succeed in something they have an interest in and in general society. Another article also related to the success of an individual “An A+ Student Regrets His Grades” by Afraj Gill describes how in society many schools focus more on students’ grades, rather than their learning, and how a student is
...lenging to maintain balance between what you love to do and work. For instance high-powered executives can forget what it is like to have time to enjoy themselves with their family and friends, and as a result they can become depressed or their vision of life becomes so limited that all that exists in their world is work. An overworked executive may never have done laboring for money, but may have labored through difficult projects. Humanity could be different if people could choose to work at what they love and have passion for. it. They could have balance in their lives; they could grow with their family and enjoy life. Ultimately, all of us need to work; some of us do laboring jobs, and at times many of us will labor through a difficult projects. In my opinion labor is a heavy heavier or burning feeling and work can be busy but incredible productive and enjoyable.
This school system is not designed to create students who just get good grades and good results on standardized tests. School should be designed to create human beings with good working habits, creative ideas and problem solving skills. The system of evaluating students on both product and process is created to increase the student 's effort and to encourage them to keep going and to do everything that is required to pass the class and to become a good
My grade should go up and I should pass the 7th grade. Passing the 7th grade with a high score is very important for high school. My grade should go up and I should pass the 7th grade because I have all my assignments and showed mastery in many learning targets
Some schools pay their children for good grades. By doing this they must think that the child will make better grades as a reward. I believe that it does help students make better grades. Some of the reasons that i think you should get paid for your grades are that it may help kids who are having trouble stay in school. It prepares them to when they get older so they know what it feels like to have a job., and it makes them work harder.
Students should be paid for having good grades. According to Psychology Today, the United States has fallen behind other nations in education. In addition to this, approximately one in four students in the U.S. drops out of school before graduation. The main reason for this is that students have little to no motivation. Students are either bored with school, or they are distracted by the other things that go on in their lives such as sports, jobs, friends and their own family life.
Even though kids have many reasons for not getting great grades. I find the most common is they don’t have the confidence. They keep telling themselves “I won’t get a good grade anyway, why should I even try.”This is the story of how I realized that I can have the confidence to achieve my academic goals.
Academic achievement was something I took pride in. It was important for me to feel as though I was exceeding the expectations and requirements of the education system I was in. While reading chapter 16 of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, my viewpoints on academic achievement changed. Now I realize that my previous idea of academic achievement was incorrect.
In the real world, you do earn rewards for your accomplishments and achievements. For instance, a college student who earns all A’s will be rewarded by being placed on the Dean’s list. On the other hand, a college student may not be proactive, self-controlled, or responsible and make D’s and F’s leads to the consequence of having a low GPA and retaking classes. Credit should most definitely be given when it is due. A part of motivation is encouragement in telling students how well they accomplished any task and sometimes rewarding the entire class for all good things and effort they put forth. My ultimate goal for my Classroom Management Plan is to model self-discipline by teaching it through my daily actions so that students may be able to self-manage themselves accordingly. The purpose of middle school is to prepare adolescence to become young adults, to help them to develop self-reflective skills that will benefit them in the future, so they can be that college student who aim high to make all A’s and respect themselves as individuals. I want my student to know themselves so they can learn how to handle themselves in all environments (school, home,
One change institutions should make to the grading system is to eliminate all factors that have noting to do with learning outcomes from affecting the students’ grade. According to the article, “Assessment of Learning Outcomes: What’s the difference?” written by Carnegie Mellon University, grades are often based on more than learning outcomes. Instructors usually include factors unrelated to learning outcomes such as attendance to class, participation, improvement and in some cases, grades are boosted a bit due to how hard the student is working.” These factors are
I do not see how providing the class with a student’s poor grade will motivate the student to work harder. In fact, I believe it may do the opposite. In my opinion, the student may shut down in the class and that would harm the student’s growth. In order to learn at the optimal level, you must feel comfortable in a class. If I were to walk into a class and see my name visualized on a projector wall, with a less than adequate grade next to it, I would be mortified. In today’s classroom, with such issues as bullying and students trying to fit in with the rest of the class, the students already have enough problems to worry about, than to worry about the teacher sharing the students grades for all to see. It is just unethical and harmful to the student’s growth as a learner to release an educational record without consent.
However, this event did not stop me from striving for excellence in my classes. Instead, I stopped reaching for awards such as certificates and stickers, and I realized that in order to get good grades, I had to pay attention in class and learn. So by getting good grades I was learning more every six weeks and the reward of learning new things motivated me to keep getting good grades in school.
Studying is the important thing in our life that can help us to change our life to better. The way of studying is different from one student to other. It is influence by many different things. Some of the students are studying long and hard and still fail, it is depend on the strategies if it good or bad, or effective or not. They can easily succeed if they the effective strategies that can save the time and improve their grade. Being a student in the college very different of being student in the school. Students need to know this. It is really important point; we need to make change in other meaning a huge transition. There are some basic principles that can help students to raise their effectiveness of the study. Using a little effort never lead to “A” and using ineffective way hard and can lead to fail. It is very important principles students need to learn it.
Students entering college for the first time look forward to the numerous tests that they are required to take least of all. Test taking and college are in tandem for many, but some debate that using testing as a grading system should be discontinued in universities. In theory it sounds like a great idea. It would cut back on stress and, more than likely, class time as well. However, stopping testing as a form of grading in universities would be soon regretted. Grading systems are an essential part of any education. Tests insure that that the student is learning what the teaching is teaching and identify areas that may need improving. The results from grading systems also show future employers or schools a glimpse of the kind of worker that a student will be. The numerous lists of positive effects on not only the students but the teachers, and even the university as a whole, outweigh the cons of using testing as a grading system.