First grade

extent for this kind of behavior because it in fact makes it hard on both students and instructors. However, students grades should be based on how they retain the information, not on their behavior. First off, students who partake in this kind of…

grading system known as , Grades out and Badges in, and I believe it would be a sufficient change to assist the level of learning for our students and our rankings in the world education. Grades out and Badges in is the process of dropping traditional grades and grading systems and creating a new method to chart the progress of students and at the same time reward them for their efforts, just like a video game. It is not a secret that our traditional school systems…

Have you ever gotten paid for your grades I suggest that students ages 10+ should be getting paid for their grades I found out many reasons why kids should be getting paid for good grades. Adults go to work every day and get paid for it and some jobs they don’t even have to do anything, Kids go to school for 6-8 hours and learn and when they get good grades they should get paid for it because they're working hard for it and trying their best. Some kids should at least be getting paid for honor…

I've posted your earned mid-term grades in English 111 on Banner and will be glad to discuss your situation with you individually sometime next week, if you'd like. These are information grades. As usual, knowledge is power: What the grade tells you gives you a chance to be pro-active in ways that might ensure your success in the course. A proper response to a mid-term grade is neither resignation nor smugness. Without my forcing the issue, the overall average at mid-term in my two sections…

The first failure was to have a good grade in 6th grade. I didn`t have a bad grade but I didn`t reach the goal I wanted. In Egypt 6th grade is important. My grade was 97% and I hoped to get a 98.5%. It was a good challenge to get in and work on it, I don`t count it as a big failure but I like to remember it that I didn`t succeed. The second failure was in 9th grade in Egypt. They call it 3 prep. I had a very good grade but I wanted much better than this. I count this as a failure because my…

Learning vs. Grading System When schools first started, the motive was to provide vast knowledge to students. Along with starting schools, a certain standard was set centuries ago by scholars who thought that they need a way to evaluate the learning procedure of students based solely on letters or numbers given on the tests taken by students. Education system was based on judging the students instead of their creativity and uniqueness by various colleges, universities, graduate schools and…

and when completed students revive college credit for them if their semester averages out to at least an eighty. The most challenging class out of both that I am enrolled in is English 1301 which consist of writing six essays over the course of the first semester. Essentially that means an essay is due every two weeks. One of the most challenging aspects of the class is the grading scale seeing as the essays fall into the seventy percent part of your…

Grade Inflation: In Alfie Kohn’s article, “The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation,” Kohn analyzes the complaints of student’s grades rising over the years. During his analysis Kohn looked for data that demonstrated reasons why grades were thought to have been inflated versus the students motivation behind achieving higher grades. Kohn also explains that it is difficult to determine the reasoning behind grade inflation claims. These claims may be false depending on the time period in which the…

by homework 10%, quizzes 10%, papers 25%, midterm 25% and final grade 30%. After all the information of the students was provided, the average in general was solved by using the Excel program. The Excel program solved everything, I just typed in the information that was provided and the equation for the program found the solution. It came to the conclusion, that the students final grade came out to be a 77% which gives us a letter grade of a C. Everything is done by Excel, but it is possible to…

an American author and educator that speaks and writes about education and parenting is very much opposed to the traditional grading system. In his essay “From Degrading to De-Grading”, Alfie Kohn argues against it, he claim that students are so grade driven that it reduces their interest in learning, creativity and preference for challenging tasks. Not only that, it also encourages cheating, disrupt curriculum and waste teachers’ time. Rather than using the current grading system, he advocate…