Grade retention

“Grades are given more leniently today than when I was in college.” Visit any major university today and you’re bound to hear a professor say something of the sort. Many professors claim that grade inflation has corrupted our colleges. Students are being rewarded highly for simply adequate work, they proclaim. The truth is grade inflation has never actually been proven; it is more of a theory than a fact. Ask for sources on the subject and you’ll find isolated studies that proudly report college…

In previous schools in which I worked, the computer software would not allow a grade override without principal approval. If a student or parent has filed a formal grievance with the principal, the principal may elect to consult the teacher regarding changing the grade or even change the grade unilaterally (though one would hope that the latter would not occur). The Centennial High School Student Handbook (2016) provides a grievance process…

Teaching has shifted away from a learning focused environment to a grade focused environment. Students have been built to place grades above learning the classroom (Farias, Farias, & Fairfield, 2010). This grade only focus get embedded into students from early in their education careers (Farias, Farias, & Fairfield, 2010). Making a shift from a grade-oriented focus to a learning-oriented focus required participation from both the teacher and the students…

1 Data archiving is the process of moving data that is no longer actively used to a separate storage device for long-term retention. Archive data consists of older data that is still important to the organization and may be needed for future reference, as well as data that must be retained for regulatory compliance. Data archives are indexed and have search capabilities so files and parts of files can be easily located and retrieved. Archiving information involves removing old inactive files…

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…

Grades are efficient and reliable to demonstrate strengths and weaknesses of students on their work. All teachers who are professional in teaching have reliable grading criteria based on research and experience. They give students accurate scores following the grading criteria. Here is the situation that most of students have experienced. There is a student who regularly participates in class and he spend much time for reading and studying the textbook. On the due date of English assignment #1,…

instructors, students, and teachers. In the United States we use grading to track the academic progression of students. Grades are important to education and serve many purposes. Grades motivate students, allow us to compare student performance across different institutions or organizations, and motivate students to succeed. Bernard Bull, a writer for Etale, claims that letter grades are effective in the short-term, but in the long term he argues that they can have negative effects such as;…

that make us different from one another. Our idea of determination and dedication, or college persistence also varies from one major to the next. Some students may classify this as attending classes and being prepared for tests and having a high grade point average, or GPA. But then there are those students who classify persistence as making it through one class with a C in core classes and D in their general education courses. For a non-traditional student just going back to classes with a…

receive is extra time, subsequently, allowing the student to receive a grade for an assignment that he or she did not complete on the accurate grade level would be a violation of the student’s IEP. The following is a course of action that I propose to rectify the situation that has been created. First and foremost, by February 10th “what has been done has been done.” As the principal, it not only will be hard to go back and change grades that have been recorded but also will be dishonest and…

When coming through the public school system, we often find that students are trying to find ways around actually doing the work, and as teachers (or future teachers in my case) we want to know what drives these students to the point where they can justify academic dishonestly. There are common associations with academic dishonesty students who work part time jobs, students who are only focused on college acceptance, and (at higher levels of education) students who are just simply not prepared.…