The Pros And Cons Of The Grading System

Traditionally learning has been done by going to class, sitting down, listening while taking notes and doing book work. However over time technology has played a huge roll in education. Therefore, how a classroom used to be run for generations has come to a halt to start a new tradition. Technology has mostly benefited education. Through technology grading systems have become faster and much easier than before. The presentation of an assignment is neater leaving behind the confusion of bad. However, with all good there is a downside. That downside is plagiarism. The grading system is a big positive for technology in the educational atmosphere. Grading is something that every student worries about and teachers stay up all night doing. Grades decide whether or not a student will pass a class and will graduate or fail the class resulting in staying another semester. With this hovering over students heads they want to know their grades as soon as possible. Getting the class their grades before technology was a very difficult task for teachers to accomplish. The teacher would have to grade the work, put it down on a piece of paper, and then complete it by doing some type of math to get the students weighted grade in the class. Now with technology teachers can grade the work, put it into the computer, and save or …show more content…
The positive is that the students will receive grades easier and faster. Another positive is students’ papers will be neater making the assignments easier and faster to read rather than trying to determine what the chicken scratch on the piece of paper says. With these positives has to come a negative, plagiarism. Students copy and paste the information on their paper and have no clue what on earth it says or means. Even with the new technology trying to prevent any plagiarism it still happens. Technology will always have positives toward education but with a little negatives tagging along with