The Report On The Grading System

As a Curriculum Coach, I facilitate professional development for teachers based on the needs of our staff and students. After spending time observing classrooms and meeting with teachers, I realized that we needed to examine our current grading practices. Our current practices focus too much on grading effort and behaviors, and not enough on measuring understanding of specific learning targets. As a result, our students and teachers focus on turning in assignments, instead of learning. If ask why a student is failing, the most common response is “he is not turning in his work”. Teachers are unable to communicate which specific learning targets the students are missing, because the grades are distorted by student behaviors. When making decisions about placement in honors courses, it is difficult to determine which students have the knowledge necessary to move into an advanced course because their grades are clouded by effort and

In “How Grading Reform Changed Our School” by Jeffrey A. Erickson, the Assistant Principal of Minnetonka High School in Minnesota, Erickson assessed how and what things are taken into account when distributing grades. Erickson claimed that the accuracy and truthfulness of grades are misrepresented with many common components that seem to be used for general grading standards.

Onaga Senior High School is coed, public high school in Onaga, Kansas. It holds classes for pupils in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment at ONHS is around 100, and the student to teacher ratio is 11:1. The gender divide is 59 percent male and 41 percent female. ONHS is part of the Onaga-Havensville-Wheaton US School District 322. State assessments show 80 percent of pupils are proficient in math and 80 percent are proficient in English. The graduation rate is 96 percent.

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

Michael Thomsen argues against the A-F grading system in his essay “The Case Against Grades.” Thomsen even goes as far to say that the A-F grading system is to blame for the difficulty in reforming American education (1). He supports his conclusion with a few thought-provoking studies and statistics, but overall there are holes in his argument and he does not offer a realistic alternative. Thus, I disagree with Thomsen’s conclusion as I think that the A-F grading system is currently the best method for the United States to use.

Literacy and numeracy testing has been implemented nationwide to improve the quality of education being provided to students. This will provide pre-service teachers a minimum requirement to strive for to meet academically to ensure they meet all basic requirements in the teaching world. It would have a

Teachers are the foundation of the future presidents, lawyers and doctors. They are a great asset to our future generation. They deserve to be appreciated and not over looked. Standardize testing is what the government uses now a day to show the amount of knowledge that students learn throughout the school years. It is an unfair way to compare the strength of the teachers and the schools and the district. Education Instructors are penalized, because of the tax payers’ money that is used for standardize testing that could go to more useful things, teachers are teaching to the test not to the students, and it is not a beneficial tool to measure how well a teacher teaches.

This article will be giving reasons why the kids will be evaluated using standardized tests for a specific grade in kindergarten through 12th grade. This will help them to evaluate themselves about the kind of tests they use for their kids at their kindergarten they run and analyses if they meet standards for the standardized tests and if not. The parents who take their kids to the kindergarten will be appropriate audience for my article for this information affects them indirectly through their children. This will help parents to know the kind of test their children are given by their teachers to take and help them know whether they are regular or

If teacher have that warm sensitive, and responsive interaction with children it helps them develop security, positive sense of self, and encourages the child to respect and be cooperate with others. The second standard is Curriculum. The curriculum should be consistent for children’s goals and provide learning and development in their physical, social-emotional, language, and cognitive development. A curriculum helps the teachers to plan their daily schedule. It maximizes the child’s learning through effective use of materials, use of play, self-initiated learning, and creative expression. It offers the children the opportunity to learn as an individual or in group according to their interests and developmental needs. The third standard is Teaching. Teachers use developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate and effective teaching approaches that will enhance the child’s learning and development in the context of program curriculum goals. The teachers who use multiple techniques optimize the child’s opportunities for learning. The instructional approach creates a positive learning environment for children to develop in all areas. The fourth standard is Assessment of Child Progress. These assessments are ongoing systematic, formal, and informal assessment approaches to help provide information on child’s learning and

At times, some situations seem more fair than others, and we simply cannot understand why. We have this feeling that for some reason, the outcome was fair, whether it was what we wanted or not. There can even be instances when we look back upon the memory and admit that the outcome does not favor us, but we feel no resentment towards the decision because we feel that it was justified. Recently, I myself was presented with a similar situation. After receiving a grade with which I was not pleased, I felt angry and victimized. I then thought of another instance where I had received an even worse grade (in a different course); however, the difference was that for some reason, the worse grade did not upset me, and I simply accepted

Have you ever spent countless hours studying for a test, then when the test hits your desk you forget everything? Are you nervous about dropping your grade terribly when failing the test? This is a thought running through the minds of students mostly every test day? Students ask often why they need a test to prove their academic success. In his essay “A Young Person’s Guide to the grading system,” Professor Jerry Farber argues that students are grade junkies and crave getting good grades. Farber is correct that the grading system is not efficient, but I do not think that his solution would be effective for all students attending school.

People only learn things when they want to know more about it, or if it entertains them. Do you find this statement to be true? While sitting in a lecture that you don’t care about do you find yourself doodling or staring off daydreaming or are you actually listening and learning? Jerry Farber is the author of the article “A Young Person’s Guide to the Grading System”. In the article Farber argued for the current grading system to be removed. His thought is to introduce and replace it with a “Credit system” the credit system would change the way people look at the work ethic of a student (387).

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.

Firstly, it considers several criteria for graduation such as in class participation, extra circular activities, short tests administered twice before the FCAT and a final test- the FCAT- which includes multiple choice as well as short answer questions to evaluate the understanding of students. All these tests should be written exams to prevent inequalities amongst schools such as problems for schools who do not have the resources to arrange for online tests and it only creates more problems than it solves. This will also allow for a broader curriculum as students are engaged in extra circular activities and learning other subjects except for the ones offered on the FCAT. Teachers will not be covering just what is going to be on the test because it is not multiple choice or predictable anymore. It depends on other variables too. Secondly, for other grades, shorter tests should be administered- one at the beginning of the school year, one in the mid, and one at the end. This will still provide a measure of student progress and achievement but their achievement will not be based off just one test but a series of tests. These tests should cover theoretical as well as practical aspects including short, long and some multiple-choice questions. This will show that the student has understood the concepts and is not just filling in the bubbles. Third, teacher’s evaluations and pay should not be based off their student’s score but their abilities. Fourth, do not evaluate schools by giving them just a letter grade or holding them accountable for student score but instead, look at student progress through years and provide the necessary resources for improving the achievement. And lastly, arrange parent-teacher meetings to discuss the progress of their children and make them aware of their strengths and weaknesses so that parents can help them at home. This policy is the best policy because it does

Many people learn many different ways. I feel that it is better to grade people off of the standard grading scale. We have used it for many decades, so why change it now? Three reasons why we should keep the grading scale the same are everyone is used to tests, quizzes, and worksheets, I feel that people learn better if you do not make them do half of the work at home, and one should not be forced to present a project in the middle of a room full of people.