A Thesis Proposal

Databases are the heart of the company. This is where all crucial company information is stored and can be accessed. Some databases are stored on site others in remote locations or using clouds. The information within a database can be manipulated in any way that the company needs it to be. Databases help to quickly search and retrieve information, it saves from data redundancy.

Alfie Kohn discussed multiple fabulous points in his article, “Degrading to De-Grading”. The author suggests more effective ways to assess students’ progress other than numerical or letter grades. Kohn goes into detail about why our current grading system is flawed. Grades can cause students to lose interest in learning which causes them to stop taking challenges. If students are not engaged and interested than they are not retaining the information they are being taught. The grading system can also cause students to develop unhealthy competition with one another for instance, “I got a better grade than you!”. Indeed, grades are a wonderful concept, but they tend to be more hurtful than helpful. In some cases, grades can have positive effects on students. For example, setting goals for various assignments, or receiving help where they are struggling. Though, there are alternatives that could make positive changes in the system.

The system should be able to produce a final score out of ten for each student.

Mr. McClean, our network’s Director of Student Information Systems, provided key information about Miriam’s calculated grade. When we manually calculated her score with assigned weights to Classwork (50%), Homework (10%), Quizzes (25%), and Tests (15%) and without dropping her lowest score, her grade was a 63%. The formula that we used was:

A way of signaling how well schools are doing (Example: A-F grades, or 1-5 stars) and

Pragmaticism, indeed, will dictate that schools, assessments, and organizations long-established will not be altered for light and short-lived causes. Hence, a gradual shift in culture and method must occur which reforms the quantitative nature of grading systems. However, let the negative effects of the current grading system be known in a direct way:

The grading system is failed cause student focus on score and being on top of the class. In school, children may learn basic academic skills. Also, they may discover social knowledge by attending at the school, which the educational system base for testing and grading; therefore, they will evaluate with marks and understand of teacher’s technique “This stage lasts twelve years, a period during which the child learns that success comes from telling testers what that want to hear”(Baker 72). In fact this structure helps student to prepare for

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In the first section, Erickson considered the need for a more consistent and clear grading system. When Minnetonka High School decided a new and improved grading system was essential, Erickson pondered what factors should determine a student’s grade. For a considerable amount of time, grades could be affected by presence, manners, determination, extra credit, and contribution. These grades, however, were meant to represent and embody only what a student has learned and the knowledge he or she acquired.

Education is without a doubt one of the most significant factors in our society. We spend twelve years of our lives in the schooling system, and our system has been the most accurate technique for assessing students for decades now. Lately, there has been controversy over the traditional grading system that we currently use in our classrooms across the United States. There is a multitude of individuals who believe we should alter our grading system, and begin using a recently developed system which involves working on a long-term assignment throughout the semester to show what students have learned during the length of the course. There are many benefits to our traditional system that people often seem to overlook. We should be

How Could a pass or fail be determined? It will have to deal with numbers and percentages from Grades that the students receive as a grade. How would the students know what's a pass and what's a fail. How can students set goals for the next time to do better? It would be much easier to determine a students grade by a letter. Competition is a good thing for students, they perform better wanting to get a better grade than others as long as the students is competing in a good way and not cheating. There will all ways be a student better than others. People would want to know a doctor had the highest grade in medical school. or that lawyer had the highest gpa in law school. people wouldn't know that if the doctors only had a pass or fail grading system. Letter grades should not be replaced with pass/fail system ,they are not specific enough to determine a students performance in his or her class. People would have no way in differentiating students with all A's and a "C" student, it would also be easier to correct a letter grade if there's an error.

Throughout my education I have experienced many different grading systems. The one that worked the best, in my opinion, was grade shading (pluses and minuses like B+, B, B- etc.). However many schools and colleges still use traditional grades (such as A, B, C and so on). Having been to five different schools and two different colleges I have seen both systems first hand. They each have their strengths and weaknesses, however I prefer grade shading because it is more fair and makes you a more competitive student.

The author uses paragraphs four through six to explain, elaborated and gives examples of assessment. In paragraph seven the author explains a point on how grade cards work then it is followed by paragraph eight giving solutions to the problem that comes with the grade card. That solution is continuums, “Continuums are designed levels of development has content standards and objectives which a student must demonstrate a command before moving to the next elopement category.” (name 169) Paragraph nine explains how the new system works. Paragraphs nine through thirteen continues talking about continuums, explaining how the new system works, the particular set of tools, how continuums showed teachers how students fall behind, how continuums are better than grade cards, and how continuums are better for students who move. Finally the paper concludes with, “The revision of the standard, limiting grade card genre has evolved into a flexible form of communication which enhances student performance and does not just measure

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 show 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. The current grading system should be upgraded and every school should incorporate the plus/minus system in their method of grading.

There are many features of Enrollment System, first is the payment management wherein this feature includes print electronic PR/OR with Accounts Balance, Examination Permit and Important Announcements, another is Automatic posting of Student’s Account Ledger. The next feature is Class record (with Transmutation Table), this feature allows to compute automatically and print the grades of the student that includes Form 137, Form 138, Form18E/A, Top Performers, and List of Failed Students. Next feature is the Reports; in this feature the information is readily available with just a point and click of a mouse. Example of these Reports is the following: Daily Report, Receivable and Aging report, Enrollment Listing/Statistical Report, Student Performances, Student Listing, Comparative Enrollment Growth, and other useful Reports