How Grading Reform Change Summary

In this article the author, Erickson, discusses the practice of teachers basing student’s grades off of their averages. The topic of the article explains it all, “How Grading Reform Changed”, this article discusses just that. According to Erickson, he suggests that grading reforms at Minnetonka High School led to a change in the way the school system worked. It fundamentally altered how teachers graded, and how students approached their learning. What automatically catches my attention is the example the author gave in relation to the topic. What does a girl attempting to accomplish the front crawl have to do with anything the story pertains to? The more I read though, the more I understand. According to Erickson “What if his daughter’s final mark was really determined by the average of her performance over the entire course”. I’m putting emphasis on ‘entire course’, because that’s exactly what’s apparently happened at Minnetonka High School.
Averaging a person’s entire, specifically student’s entire, school course is distorted in many ways. It wouldn’t be very accurate to give a person a grade based on all their accomplishments, and failures. According to para.2 (pg.66) from How Grading Reform Changed, “teachers were using a wide range of factors such as……attendance, behavior, effort, extra curriculum…” Teachers should only base a …show more content…
“ What this basically summarizes is that if students accomplish simple task such as giving a slip to a teacher if they have to use the restroom, or other miscellaneous things such as bringing extra tissue paper, or printer paper they’ll get extra points or extra credit. It sounds like an awesome reward, but is it actually helping anyone learns anything? It’s more of an incentive to do things. You give me this and I give you that in return, something like a trade-off? Is that what going to school is all