The A-F Grading System
If the current grading system doesn’t provide motivation or success toward academic achievement, better changes and strategies should be enforced. The A-F letter grades system has been around since my great-grandparents academic career and beyond. The A-F grading system has had a significant impact because this grading system has defined us and granted us admission to the different institution. Colleges and universities set this grading system as a boundary to grant admission, funding, scholarship, and other benefit. However, the standards-based grading system has brought in negative impacts on preparing and studying for standardized tests, grade-level education, homework and other assignments. I believe universities classes should offer the
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Students will be more pressured to follow directions and guidelines to achieve certain grades. The traditional grading system will also present an easier outlook for parents and students according to their deficiencies. According to the article, Ken Halla (high school history teacher) argues that the A-F grading system helps students and parents to better understand students’ performance and their progress more easily. That in mind, A-F grading skills will make students have better direction-followings skills and students will put in more effort to demonstrate that they have completely learned and understand the material. However, by doing so can also result in a negative impact by undermining a student’s academic interest in learning and thinking skills by the A-F grading …show more content…
According to the article, Alfie Kohn argues that A-F grading system will not motivate students to understand the information, take in challenge, and learn about other correlated materials. From this argument, we can also conclude that students will focus more on their performance of the A-F grading system rather than “being engaged” with their education. Therefore, the pass/fail system should be offered to students because students will be more engaged in academics and take challenges to experience new materials and may be more willing to take academic
Students will be more pressured to follow directions and guidelines to achieve certain grades. The traditional grading system will also present an easier outlook for parents and students according to their deficiencies. According to the article, Ken Halla (high school history teacher) argues that the A-F grading system helps students and parents to better understand students’ performance and their progress more easily. That in mind, A-F grading skills will make students have better direction-followings skills and students will put in more effort to demonstrate that they have completely learned and understand the material. However, by doing so can also result in a negative impact by undermining a student’s academic interest in learning and thinking skills by the A-F grading …show more content…
According to the article, Alfie Kohn argues that A-F grading system will not motivate students to understand the information, take in challenge, and learn about other correlated materials. From this argument, we can also conclude that students will focus more on their performance of the A-F grading system rather than “being engaged” with their education. Therefore, the pass/fail system should be offered to students because students will be more engaged in academics and take challenges to experience new materials and may be more willing to take academic