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I think that grades encourage students to continue with the course. Most of the times students only want to get good grades instead of learning or they just need to pass the course no matter what grade he gets.
Grading is an important part of the teaching-learning process. It gives not only to the student but also to the teacher information about their work during the course in. Although good grades encourages students to go on, it is also important no to forget that sometimes bad grades demotivate students and in the worst of the cases they decide to quit.
Ariadna, is there, do you think, a way to structure a course so that the grade a student "gets" more accurately reflects what she or he has learned or the effort put forth in a task or course?
And, Silvia, I think you're too right. It's terrible to see talented students quit a course because of discouragement of a bad grade. Maybe a different type of assessment might highlight those talents...
Grading is, for sure, one important element talking about the "formal" teaching-learning process. Grades give T's some information about Ss' progress, and is a good signal to know if we are doing well or not.
What I think is that we have to say Ss this is a process in which grades are necessary, but point out that neither good grades nor bad ones do not reflect (sometimes) the real progress they are doing. The very grade is the one they get in any real situatution in which English is involeved, they way they act.
I honestly say that I am not used to using the computer so much and I thought it was going to be very difficult for me but I've realised it is not . Thanks Russell for encouraging me to try something new. See you on Saturday.
I don´t think grades can really show how much a student has improved. This is, in many occasions students think if they get 10 they are able to use the language, however, I think they can only know how to write or understand a question, but that doesn´t mean they are able to speak, or understand the language as a whole. I personally don´t like exams. If I have to, I will take it, but that is subjective.
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I think that grades encourage students to continue with the course. Most of the times students only want to get good grades instead of learning or they just need to pass the course no matter what grade he gets.
Grading is an important part of the teaching-learning process. It gives not only to the student but also to the teacher information about their work during the course in. Although good grades encourages students to go on, it is also important no to forget that sometimes bad grades demotivate students and in the worst of the cases they decide to quit.
Ariadna, is there, do you think, a way to structure a course so that the grade a student "gets" more accurately reflects what she or he has learned or the effort put forth in a task or course?
And, Silvia, I think you're too right. It's terrible to see talented students quit a course because of discouragement of a bad grade. Maybe a different type of assessment might highlight those talents...
Grading is, for sure, one important element talking about the "formal" teaching-learning process. Grades give T's some information about Ss' progress, and is a good signal to know if we are doing well or not.
What I think is that we have to say Ss this is a process in which grades are necessary, but point out that neither good grades nor bad ones do not reflect (sometimes) the real progress they are doing. The very grade is the one they get in any real situatution in which English is involeved, they way they act.
I honestly say that I am not used to using the computer so much and I thought it was going to be very difficult for me but I've realised it is not . Thanks Russell for encouraging me to try something new. See you on Saturday.
I don´t think grades can really show how much a student has improved. This is, in many occasions students think if they get 10 they are able to use the language, however, I think they can only know how to write or understand a question, but that doesn´t mean they are able to speak, or understand the language as a whole. I personally don´t like exams. If I have to, I will take it, but that is subjective.
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