Grading System

Some universities wanted to use the Johnson plan of calculating grade point average differently than before, but this plan would make student’s academic careers much more complicated. Staples exclaims “Valen Johnson, a Duke University statistics professor, came under heavy fire when he proposed recalculating the grade point average to give rigorously graded courses greater weight” (412). Johnson proposed this plan thinking that it would help students be more successful, but all it would do was make everything very worse. Under this plan all courses would be given the same equal weight, but this plan would have many drawbacks. Depending on what major a student had, that student would be required to take certain courses

First and foremost, letter grades have been used since the 19th century without any complications. “The traditional grading scale is universally recognized. Virtually everyone knows that earning an A is good while earning an F is associated with failure. The traditional grading scale is easy to interpret and understand. The simplistic nature of the system makes it user-friendly for teachers, students, and parents. It also allows for a direct comparison from one student to another within a specific class” (Meador). Ultimately, parents remember and understand the letter grading system. It's easy to be happy that their child earned an

Farber’s view on the grading system is accurate. The grading does more bad than good, causing students to get stressed and not learn. Students’ spend most of their

Have you ever gotten an A on a test before? Were you happy or excited? How would you feel If that grade was replaced by a number? This is what Standards Based Grading is doing to schools. While some will say SBG is helpful and less threatening than traditional grading, they are wrong. SBG is more harmful than helpful because letter grades are more precise, letter grades give more motivation, and collages are harder to get into with SBG.

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

Pass or fail grading systems is just not accurate enough to determine a students performance on his or her work. It is almost just not fair especially for students in college that have classes with a pass or fail grading system. Its not fair because students pay so much money to go

Harvey C. Mansfield, professor of government at Harvard University, begins his published piece, “Grade Inflation: It’s Time to Face the Facts,” in The Chronicle of Higher Education, explaining his two grade system he’s implemented at Harvard University. Mansfield’s grading system operates by giving one fourth of his students As and the other fourth A-s; the second part of his system is a private grade granted by either him or the course assistants. The private grades expose the students’ flaws and weaknesses; revealing their true merits. The problem he identifies is that A’s are given freely to students with insufficient intention; students no longer struggle to earn excellent marks. He assumes his readers are concerned about grade inflation and hopes college professors and administrators might implement his ideas. His primary claim is one policy, and his purpose is to convince his readers to revolutionize the grading model today and abate the grade inflation statistics.

The more beneficial way of learning is always the best for parents and kids. Standards based grading is one that is bringing kids and parents down. Standards based grading should be banned from all schools for letter grades, beneficial standards, and most of all, higher and better grade proficiency. A reason for this is that it’s affecting middle, high, and college grades, for when it’s time to move on. Another reason is it takes time to turn over to letter grades from SBG, and teachers don’t actually help you for one’s and two’s. Plus it’s easier to understand Letter Grades-(parents). These are all three reasons why standards based grading should be removed from all schools.

Louisiana State University has decided to adopt a Plus/Minus grading system for the fall semester of 2015. So what does this mean? The current grading system bases grade point averages, or GPAs, on a 4.0 scale with an A worth 4.0 quality points, a B worth 3.0, et cetera. According to the University Registrar’s website, GPAs with the Plus/Minus grading system will now be based on a 4.3 scale with an A+ worth 4.3 quality points, an A worth 4.0, an A- worth 3.7, et cetera. Supporters of the Plus/Minus grading scale believe that it will reduce grade inflation and make LSU more competitive with other national schools that have a system in place like the one LSU is adopting (“A Plus and Minus Grading System for LSU”). However, many students have great concerns about how this policy will be implemented and the repercussions it will have on their GPAs and futures. Overall, the University should have been more thorough conducting its research and considered the negative effects that the Plus/Minus system will have on students and the university as a whole.

The standard A-F grading scale makes more sense to use than using a pass or fail system. First of all, the standard A-F grading scale has been around a long time and most students and parents already understand how to use it. It’s standard that an A is passing and an F is failing. Second, it gives the student an incentive to try harder to get a better grade. When you decide on a college you want to have the highest GPA possible. Which leads to my last reason of why it makes more sense, the standard A-F grading system has a set point system of A is 4.0, B is 3.0, C is 2.0, D is 1.0, and F is 0. Your GPA is already known by what letter grade you receive, making it less time consuming for the college you are going to attend. They won’t have

Students at the University argue that they just want to see more consistency in the grading system so their GPAs reflect their performance, instead of a grading scale that changes as often as they change

Schools like KHS with grading scales at 94-100 is an A, gives us students disadvantages for college. Typically, to get into a good college they look at your GPA. Most colleges won’t notice that our grading scale is different. Knowing that we could have that A and we could have a 4.0 if we went to a different school,

On the Evaluation Score Worksheet, enter the point value in the scoring system associated with the applicant’s cumulative GPA. •

Princeton University took a rare stand against grade inflation in 2004, and publicly announced a policy designed to curb it. The policy states that "A" grades should account for less than 35% of the grades for undergraduate courses, and less than 55% of grades for junior and senior independent work. The standard by which the grading record of each department or program is evaluated is the percentage of "A" grades given over the previous three years.

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.