Grading: Purpose? Should it Change? by Brianna

Questions to Answer!!!!

brianna_crowley — 2015-02-13 15:54:18 UTC

What’s the purpose of grading? Is it a positive or negative influence on learning? What should change?

Cameron Brown

2015-02-13 16:00:17 UTC

Grading has both a positive and negative influence on learning. It motivates students to perform well, but it warps our education to be test-oriented. Students don't care about if they understand the material, they only care about the letter.

I believe that we should change the grading system and avoid grading solely based off of test performance. We should grade more on participation amongst other things.

Ben S

2015-02-13 16:01:03 UTC

I think that grading has a negative influence on learning because students think about the grade rather then what they have learned

Michael Abruzzo

2015-02-13 16:01:18 UTC

The purpose of grading is to judge someone's skills and effort. Hopefully with the feedback given, the person can learn from their mistakes and improve for the next time. Grading brings both a positive and negative influence on learning. It is positive because the feedback provided can really help the person learn from what they did wrong. It is also a negative influence because all too often people focus on the grades rather than the learning. They try to do the bare minimum to get a good grade without the focus on getting better and improving their skills. I am not entirely sure if this system needs to change or not. There are both positives and negatives to the system, leaving me split with my decision.

Elizabeth N.

2015-02-13 16:01:21 UTC

The purpose of grading is to give a student a score that will give feedback to the teacher about the student's growth in knowledge and how the teacher is teaching his/her students. Grading is a negative influence on learning because it only provides a student with a score to compare him/herself with others. The number means very little in terms of having the student know on what they need to learn or improve. Sometimes, the score may help the student focus on which areas he/she needs to study, but the student won't know how to improve. Grading is more often helpful if there is feedback because then, the student will learn what he/she needs to do in order to improve, learn, and grow.

Kathy Li

2015-02-13 16:01:33 UTC

I feel like grading has a negative effect. It labels people by how their doing in a number. Students don't care about whether we understand the material or not. As long as we have a good grade is all that matters. It's more about how much information do we remember, not how well we understand it in some subjects. Grades make students more competitive about the grade rather than the actual knowledge. In most instances, students forget the knowledge right after they get a good grade on something. Students will take classes that help raise their GPA because they can get good grades rather than take classes that will be useful to them. I feel like grades unnecessarily are in a way, destroying the point of education by making it a goal or competition rather than about the actual things we learn. I feel instead of grades, we should get feedback. I know people will say it will not motivates students, but at the end of the year, teachers can view how well we improved or something. If teachers give feedback, it will show how students respond to criticism and see how motivated they are for the subject is they take the feedback and use it to their advantage. We should just have one big exam at the ebd to see how well we retained that feedback and put it to use, and know how to use it. Colleges can view teacher comments about the student as to how well they are motivated and hardworking. I just feel like we label students as competitors, like horses in a race or something. It should be more about the content rather than the grade. As long as we have a good grade it's ok, it doesn't matter if we retain or understand it, and I feel like that mindset it wrong. I know I have a few times been jealous because my friend got a better grade, and I feel like we should do something to eliminate that aspect of school

Amod Mathur

2015-02-13 16:01:33 UTC

The purpose of grading is a positive influence on learning. It gives feedback in a form that reflects on how you did. It should change by giving a guide on how to improve and get better for future assignments. Grading could be negative,however, if someone is having trouble with their work and they need help on how to improve. A lower grade would have a negative impact on how they feel about their work.

Lauryn W.

2015-02-13 16:01:40 UTC

The purpose of grading is to show how well a person was taught and understands a topic. Grading has a negative influence on learning because it puts pressure on the student and forces them to know the topic well. Also when a student receives a "bad grade" it lowers self esteem and doesn't make them feel as smart as others. Lastly, grading can create this feeling of anxiety because a student has to find a way to raise a bad grade to feel accomplished.

Daniel Sheehan

2015-02-13 16:02:13 UTC

Grading gives me the drive to learn that I don't think I would not have if my classwork was not graded. When I know that there is a graded assignment, I want to learn the material so I do well on the assignment. It is has a positive influence on my learning.

Alexis G

2015-02-13 16:02:19 UTC

The purpose of grading is to show the student and teacher how much the student has learned. Grading can have positive and negative effects. Grades can give stress to students, putting a lot of pressure on them. Grades could be positive in the sense that it's a good indicator to the student how well they understand the concepts that they are learning.

Gina Tarsi

2015-02-13 16:02:28 UTC

Grades can give students the necessary motivation

to do well, or grades can be stressful and take the

excitement out of learning. Just giving feedback could

be a sufficient substitute because students will still want

to correct what they have done wrong. The purpose of

grading is too get feedback which you can do without the

physical grade.

Marly Aziz

2015-02-13 16:02:31 UTC

The purpose of grading is to give a general system that everyone agrees with that ranks a students effort and quality of work. Personally, I'm more motivated to give my best work , if I know that that I'm being judged on it, however, at the same time, I'm more focused and learn more about the topic because i know I'm being graded.

Alex Anderson

2015-02-13 16:02:38 UTC

I think the purpose of grading is just there to have colleges look for a specific grade to have specifications if you can get in. I feel grades are a negative influence on learning because it doesn't help students. It discourages improvement to some students because instead of getting feedback on their work, they only get a grade

Mandy

2015-02-13 16:02:40 UTC

Grading evaluates your proficiency in a particular subject or area. I can have both a positive and negative influence on students learning. It can be a good thing by showing students how well they are doing in a certain class. It can have a negative influence on students by stressing them out and causing tension between them and their parents if their parents want them to get certain grades that they have difficulty achieving.

Meghan Fickes

2015-02-13 16:02:54 UTC

grading puts a negative influence on learning becuase the 100 point system forces students to be seen as GPAs and numbers instead of induviduals who can grow. If a student receives a bad grade at the beginning of the year, that grade keeps pulling them down no matter how much improvement they make.

Eden

2015-02-13 16:03:05 UTC

I think grading has a negative effect. Most students are so hooked on the idea of having a good grade, and it's not always about the actual learning. One positive thing about grading is it somewhat shows the students understanding, but students can also cram everything in the night before which doesn't show an actual understanding. That's why I think grading is mostly negative because it goes both ways.

Michael Z

2015-02-13 16:04:00 UTC

The purpose of grading is to rank individuals on work and achievements. Grading can be positive by rewarding good work and alerting to work that needs to be improved. Grading can be negative by creating inauthentic atmospheres only to please grades.

Lexie

2015-02-13 16:04:01 UTC

Grading can have both a negative and positive influence on students and their learning. I believe that grading gives you a motivation to do your work to the best of your ability, but at the same I think that sometimes a grade doesnt reflect the students learning/ understanding of the topic.

McKenzie McLeod

2015-02-13 16:04:27 UTC

gradung helps show how much you have improved, but more often than not, kids have been focused on the number grade and not what they actually have learned.

Rachel

2015-02-13 16:06:43 UTC

The purpose of grading is for colleges to see how intelligent you are.

Questions to Answer!!!

brianna_crowley — 2015-02-13 16:56:04 UTC

What’s the purpose of grading? Is it a positive or negative influence on learning? What should change?

Bobby Foley

2015-02-13 17:17:25 UTC

The purpose of grading can be argued to be a few different things. The purpose of grading always depends on the person that's being graded. Students with a fixed mind set use the grading system as an opportunity to achieve perfection on one test. Students with a fixed mind set use grades to either prove accomplishment or failure. Students with a growth mind set use the grading system as an opportunity to improve themselves and their work. Whether it's a positive or negative influence completely relies on the student. I don't think anything should change in the grading system, but I think students like myself should be educated on how to properly use the grading system.

Omar Martinez

2015-02-13 17:17:54 UTC

While I really don't know the purpose, I do know that it can have a positive and a negative influence depending on the persons mindset. I don't see why grading should change, but do to students having diverse mindsets, the way teaching is done should be experimented and tweaked a bit for everyone to have a better time learning.

Stephen Warden

2015-02-13 17:18:03 UTC

Is it a positive or negative influence on learning?

Grading is positive for people that have an open mindset because it shows them the areas that they are good in or the areas that they need to approve in. On the other side of the argument people that have a closed mindsets it is negative because it makes them fell that they cant do better and they are always going to be bad in this area.

Kayla Christensen

2015-02-13 17:19:34 UTC

In my opinion the purpose of grading, is to put students into a "ranking system" where it shows teachers how much to help the students, if the students have lower grades than they know to help the students more that the students with a higher grade. Don't get me wrong they still need to help the students with the higher grades, but they don't need as much help.

I see it as a negative influence, because it puts a lot of pressure of the students not only from their teachers, but their parents as well. For some students they cant handle that pressure and it makes them almost break.

Grades should be changed, because when students see that they get a bad grade for long enough they just start to give up, instead of needing help, and for some teachers they do not even bother to try and help their students, they just let them fail. Where as other teachers try so hard to help their students pass.

Ash

2015-02-13 17:19:52 UTC

Grades have both positive and negative influence on learning. For some students they need the presser to put effort into the work. For others the stress is too mush and they shut down. Teachers have to be carful about both situation.

Kiran

2015-02-13 17:20:03 UTC

Grading has a positive and negative influence on learning. Grading can give motivation and it can also bring you down. Everyone learns a different way, grading how they do on tests may not be what you should be grading.

2) Is it a positive or negative influence on learning? (Lexi R)

2015-02-13 17:20:34 UTC

I believe that learning has positive and negative . The positive is that it does help you find out how you are doing in the class but it also is the most stressful and annoying part of a teenagers life.

Lutia Crum-Ewing

2015-02-13 17:21:08 UTC

The purpose of grading is to see your achievements and to see if you are understanding what you are learning.

Sophia Crum-Ewing

2015-02-13 17:21:58 UTC

Grading in my opinion is a good influence because it shows what you either achieve very well, or need more work on. It can help you get a better understanding on what you need to work on, or it can be motivation to help you keep trying your best on all of your work.

2015-02-13 17:22:03 UTC

Mikayla Fulton

2015-02-13 17:22:11 UTC

The purpose of grading is to see how good you are in each subject. I dont think that the way people grade should change because it benefits us.

Erin Dear

2015-02-13 17:31:53 UTC

I believe greeting people in learning is negative outlook on education. Most of the time grading involves tests and quizzes. Tests and quizzes have a number of problems including memorization instead of learning. Some students also develop test anxiety. A student can learn and still not succeed on a test. Learning is different for certain types of people. Learning can be classified in by three different types: hands on, visual, and auditory. grading on participation and written participation is a good form of grading.

Molly Reeves

2015-02-16 21:21:19 UTC

In my opinion, the grading system we have now should stay the same. Although the way grade in the U.S. creates stress on kids, it also pushed them to do well in the future. Without grades, kids wouldn't try as hard as they do today. Also, if we didn't have grades there wouldn't be a way for colleges to know whether or not to except you because the school the child went to may have had a different way of grading.