Grading And Reporting

Grading and reporting are relatively recent phenomena in education. In fact, prior to 1850, grading and reporting were virtually unknown in schools in the United States ( Pollio, 2012). According to Mcmillan (2001), between the years 1870 and 1910, the number of high school students increased. Therefore, teachers started using grades and percentages to show the progress of students in the different educational fields. Today, many schools follow a grading system which is a system used to assess the educational performance based on points and letters.
There are many effective reasons to abolish grading systems in schools. One reason is that students are focusing on getting the best grades without understanding the content and they focus on …show more content…
In our community, they judge the student’s intelligence by the scores they get. People who are able to form their own opinion are the people who really understand what is happening. Sometimes people who score high marks are rejected because they are not worthy to work in the practical world, the ones that succeed in this are the ones that have the potential and true knowledge to perform it in the best way. Many students get low grades but are actually intelligent a great example of that is Thomas Edison he was one of the most successful inventors in history but was kicked out of school when he was 12 for being poor at math and unable to concentrate. According to a 2006 comparison in Milwaukee found that Montessori students performed better than grade-based students at reading and math, “they also wrote more creative essays with more complex sentence structures, selected more positive responses to social dilemmas, and reported feeling more of a sense of community at their school” (Thomsen, …show more content…
Schools should consider grading systems as a minor thing rather than giving it the full attention because it does not define the student’s level of knowledge. The grading system should be used for student’s own sake in which they identify their weak and strong points so they work on improving themselves. Grades should not cause stress for students but help them build their personalities and their own positions. Schools and parents who support grading systems should help in making them less stressful. Specifically, parents have to focus more on the quality of education their kids earn rather than a number or letter that is a result of a