Why We SHOULD NOT Abolish Grading
If all grading in the world were to be abolished, how would we ever know where we stand and where we want to get to. Abolishing grading would be the number one error in our society education. According to Paul Goodman, writer of A Proposal to Abolish Grading, we should abolishing grading. He states, "What a grim waste of young life and teacherly effort." I totally disagree with this statement. If we did not have grading, we would not have any structure in our schools. Grading help us students to want to achieve more. For instance, if I go home with a C or a B, I am going to obviously want an A, because far as I know, that is the highest ranking in basically saying, "I have achieved this subject."
A grade of an A, B. C, D, could have standards as high as the teacher want them to be. Even though you may have to stay in that range of letters, they could stand for whatever you want them to stand for. The students can always go above and beyond what is required of them. Its up to them to make that grade what it is really worth.
Paul Goodman- "But I submit that this set up itself makes it impossible for the student to become a master, to have grown up, and to commence his own." As I stated before, it is up to the student to go above and beyond. Who says that the grading scale holds students back. Its only true if the student themselves think it.
Interesting post. However, when you say that obtaining an A for example, will mean you "have achieved this subject". Well, is a grade actually a good indicator of how much you know No, because grades are very subjective, one teacher might think that you deserve an A, while another might view the exact same work as a B. Also, many students just memorise useless facts the night before the test, spit it out on the test, and then forget all of it. That is why feedback is better, because it is customised for each individual, and that will motivate the student to learn and improve, because a grade does not tell you where you made mistakes and how to improve them. Grades just motivate students to compete with one another, while we should all aim to compete with ourselves. Just my opinion.
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