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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Grades (marks) encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
Hello folks! In my opinion, grading is not a very easy issue. It is not a matter of just giving a number or a letter. It involves many things; first it depends on the type of the assignment, second, we have to take into account the effort and the improvement of the student, then, if it is necessary, we should make a constructive comment, in order to show the way to the student to keep learning.
Grading should be just a tool to guide and encourage the student, not to discourage them from learning or trying it again. It should be a way of communicating with the student. We should tell the student this is just a way to focus on the learning process rather than just getting a grade (certainly getting a high grade should be part of the motivation, but not the absolute aim)
By the way...Thank you Russell for your effort on sharing great tools to be used with our students. You've got an A! :)
Usually good grades encourage students to learn, especially if they are given in an almost immediate way, like a good feedback of an exercise in class. But they can also be discouraging, particularly if the student is making an effort and doesn’t seem get the desired results.
First of all, hello everybody! I agree with LUPITA; grading involves many things ( quantitative,qualitative). Grades are a goood tool for students as well as teachers. It could help us as a guide throughout the course whether to continue or stop whenever necessary. However it could deceive us.
Grading plays an important role in the teaching-learning process since it gives tools to the teachers and students to see the progress in the learning process. On the first hand, grading can sometimes encourage learners to keep on stuying specially when they get "good grades" that makes them feel pleased and it reflects what they know and what they learned, although a "good grade" doesn`t mean that they learned.I've seen students with "good grades" that don't know what they are supposed to. On the other hand grading can also help the teachers to think and apply new strategies for those students with "lower grades" because those grades mean that something is not working as it should in both parts teachers and students. tome, good grades encourage students to keep on learning and low grades are opportunities that teachers and students have to improve what they do.
HI! I feell that grading is a device that will work with students that are loooking for a grade better than proving themselves what they have learnt. Teachers know how students respond to a number or a letter because they way they are, I mean some students don´t care, they feel in no doubt that a 6 or an F do´t mean what they have learnt. Students show more if they are involved in a project better than in an exam.
Hey! Great to see some comments here! And all of you had some really valid points to make.
I guess we all know- probably as teachers and students- that grades can be all of useful, frustrating, instructive guides, points of encouragement/discouragement, extrinsic motivators, a means of accountability to stakeholders outside the classroom (parents, administrators, etc.), and so on... I think for me grades can and should (1) encourage/provoke learners to participate in activities and processes, (2) provide the learners with another learning/practicing opportunity during the assessment itself, and (3) be transparent so that they provide an opportunity to strengthen trust between the teacher and students, furthering their accountability to each other.
At least like this, grades can be useful. But the idea of them encouraging students to learn as the traditional model of "dangling the carrot..." Naw, I don't think so.
HI there I believe grades may ENCOURAGE students to learn, but they don't reflect what students really handle. Not only good grades encourage students to learn, but also bad ones. Personally when I was first learning English and had a test I always looked at my mistakes and never to the right answers I felt so happy when my mistakes were fewer and fewer. That's why whenever I start a course I always ask my students if the just want to pass a course or if they want to learn. Of course I most of the times get the second answer and since that moment I commit them to do their best.
I think Grades are important in the teaching and learning process as it was mentioned before, because they reflect or would reflect how you have improve since you started learning. However it's also true that most of the times grades don't really reflect what a person know.
I think that grades can be used as tools to motivate students to learn in a comfortable atmosphere, when they´re up to 8 or more. But, on the other hand, it would be much better if we didn´t have to give numbers or letters to grade them. Instead, it would be a good idea to have a continuous follow up of each student and encourage them to evaluate themselves. And as you told me today Russell, they could increase they own moral values to improve honesty in them.
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Hello folks! In my opinion, grading is not a very easy issue. It is not a matter of just giving a number or a letter. It involves many things; first it depends on the type of the assignment, second, we have to take into account the effort and the improvement of the student, then, if it is necessary, we should make a constructive comment, in order to show the way to the student to keep learning.
Grading should be just a tool to guide and encourage the student, not to discourage them from learning or trying it again. It should be a way of communicating with the student. We should tell the student this is just a way to focus on the learning process rather than just getting a grade (certainly getting a high grade should be part of the motivation, but not the absolute aim)
By the way...Thank you Russell for your effort on sharing great tools to be used with our students. You've got an A! :)
Usually good grades encourage students to learn, especially if they are given in an almost immediate way, like a good feedback of an exercise in class. But they can also be discouraging, particularly if the student is making an effort and doesn’t seem get the desired results.
First of all, hello everybody!
I agree with LUPITA; grading involves many things ( quantitative,qualitative). Grades are a goood tool for students as well as teachers. It could help us as a guide throughout the course whether to continue or stop whenever necessary. However it could deceive us.
Hello everybody¡¡
Grading plays an important role in the teaching-learning process since it gives tools to the teachers and students to see the progress in the learning process.
On the first hand, grading can sometimes encourage learners to keep on stuying specially when they get "good grades" that makes them feel pleased and it reflects what they know and what they learned, although a "good grade" doesn`t mean that they learned.I've seen students with "good grades" that don't know what they are supposed to. On the other hand grading can also help the teachers to think and apply new strategies for those students with "lower grades" because those grades mean that something is not working as it should in both parts teachers and students.
tome, good grades encourage students to keep on learning and low grades are opportunities that teachers and students have to improve what they do.
HI!
I feell that grading is a device that will work with students that are loooking for a grade better than proving themselves what they have learnt. Teachers know how students respond to a number or a letter
because they way they are, I mean some students don´t care, they feel in no doubt that a 6 or an F do´t mean what they have learnt. Students show more if they are involved in a project better than in an exam.
Hey! Great to see some comments here! And all of you had some really valid points to make.
I guess we all know- probably as teachers and students- that grades can be all of useful, frustrating, instructive guides, points of encouragement/discouragement, extrinsic motivators, a means of accountability to stakeholders outside the classroom (parents, administrators, etc.), and so on... I think for me grades can and should (1) encourage/provoke learners to participate in activities and processes, (2) provide the learners with another learning/practicing opportunity during the assessment itself, and (3) be transparent so that they provide an opportunity to strengthen trust between the teacher and students, furthering their accountability to each other.
At least like this, grades can be useful. But the idea of them encouraging students to learn as the traditional model of "dangling the carrot..." Naw, I don't think so.
HI there
I believe grades may ENCOURAGE students to learn, but they don't reflect what students really handle. Not only good grades encourage students to learn, but also bad ones. Personally when I was first learning English and had a test I always looked at my mistakes and never to the right answers I felt so happy when my mistakes were fewer and fewer. That's why whenever I start a course I always ask my students if the just want to pass a course or if they want to learn. Of course I most of the times get the second answer and since that moment I commit them to do their best.
I think Grades are important in the teaching and learning process as it was mentioned before, because they reflect or would reflect how you have improve since you started learning. However it's also true that most of the times grades don't really reflect what a person know.
I think that grades can be used as tools to motivate students to learn in a comfortable atmosphere, when they´re up to 8 or more.
But, on the other hand, it would be much better if we didn´t have to give numbers or letters to grade them. Instead, it would be a good idea to have a continuous follow up of each student and encourage them to evaluate themselves.
And as you told me today Russell, they could increase they own moral values to improve honesty in them.
Good post.
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