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“good” they are. Other educators say that this is not necessarily detrimental. Students need this information to know which areas they should improve upon or whether their time would be better spent elsewhere. For centuries, the world has been using grades as a means to determine the academic prowess of students. What began in 18th century English universities as a competition ranking system, was mimicked by the United States and turned into a numerical scale ranging from zero to four that…

Having worked my brain into a frenzy going over every single possible grade I was at the point where I just wanted it to be over. With little optimism I walked up to the teacher’s desk with a look of shame only a dog who had just been screamed at could rival. Hoping that the news would be short and sweet my teacher opened…

this software, students often won’t receive any criteria they can base their progress on until they receive their grade. Most importantly, online courses that often feature class sizes over 500 students shows the key benefit that automatic essay grading software provides. The ease of reaching many students at once with an online lecture faces a bottleneck if one teacher is expected to grade the submissions from such a large class. This can be alleviated by adding teacher’s assistants or paid…

Sixth grade has been like a tornado coming my way, fast and full of changes. Furiously charging towards me making me notice that this year will be different. Since 5th grade I have had many things change this past school year. Going into 6th grade I have had confusing friendships, more responsibilities, and a lot more freedom. Friends come and go, especially over the 6th grade year. Friends go away, since sixth grade is the first year where two schools come together, you find out who your real…

important to keep on trying. At the beginning of my freshman year in college, I was enrolled in an English 1301 class, which I started off the semester with a grade of 80. By the end of the semester I had achieved a final grade of an 89, and while I fell short of an A, through persistence I was able to hone my writing skills and raise my grade by nine points. College requires that one must be persistent, otherwise it is easy to fall short of achieving one’s goals. It is impossible to get better…

realized halfway through sophomore year that the academics were only half the battle. I lacked the ability to communicate efficiently with others. The move from a tight-knit school of 650 students to a public school with 2,000 students was terrifying. My grades through junior year dropped as I got a sense of how the real world is; teachers don’t repeat the assignment, grading errors don’t fix themselves, and I had to learn how to fight…

instantly became nervous. I always liked art, but I am not very good at it. It was nerve-racking because I have not been in an art class since 6th grade. This is because we had the choice between art and band, and I loved being in the band. My 6th grade art teacher was not very supportive and if the art was not up to her standards she would give you a bad grade, or make you redo it. Thinking back I could not recall a time where I was told good job or anything or that nature. My friends and I…

actual job they want to be a freaking fashion police. These teachers take up too much of their time trying to dress code when they need to be focusing on their grades and why some students are failing or even focusing on putting grades in grade speed the main teachers who dress code are the ones who never have good curriculum or good grade averages.…

Does a student’s attitude play a role in their success in school? According to Andrew J. Martin and Herbert W. Marsh, resilience is a key factor in whether you will not only be more successful in school, but in life after that. In their study, they collected data based off specific psychological questions that determined if students in high school possessed this base characteristic of success. Martin and Marsh used the answers to the students’ questions, calculated them on a mathematic scale,…

writing a rhetorical analysis, and have not received anything under an eight on recent papers. Also, I was a horrible DBQ writer when we first began writing DBQs in this course. After doing it many more times, I have noticed remarkable growth in my DBQ grades. Moreover, I can successfully finish a timed essay or multiple choice examination without stress. This quarter superbly curbed my writing skills and prepared me the most for the upcoming exam. Next quarter, I want to build off skills…