Group Grading While volunteering in my son’s kindergarten class I have come to realize that education is one area that would not benefit from group grading system. Grading students as a group allows some students to advance based on the work of others, and individual grading makes each student responsible for their own future. Although some people may benefit from a group grading system, an individual grading system is a much better way to judge a student’s level of knowledge, makes them accountable for their own work, and keeps teachers informed of what each student is learning. One of the many ways grading students as a group is less efficient and seemingly harmful is the fact that all students do not have the same level of knowledge. Some academics come naturally to students and if they are outnumbered by those that don’t comprehend the lesson, then they may receive a poor grade.
Rachel Veroneau Leasa Day English 101 February 10, 2013 Why Would You Cheat? People in college can have a hard time with some of their classes. They can think that it would be easy to just get all of the answers to a test, or to buy the paper that is needed. But why would someone cheat? Those kinds of ideas can lead them to serious consequences.
Begging, demanding, and asking for an undeserved grade Google “How do you go to a teacher and ask for a better grade?” The search results might be shocking as there are countless guidelines posted by several students instructing other students on how to beg, demand, or simply ask a professor for a higher grade than the one originally given to them. Each semester teachers get several requests asking for better grades because either the student needs it or the student really, really wants it. In Kurt Weisenfeld's article “Making the Grade,” Weisenfeld discusses how after reviewing final grades, his failing students felt as if they could hassle him for grades that they thought they deserved but did not receive. Rather than meeting their goals and putting the effort needed to be awarded for the desired grade, these students expected a free upgrade for undeserved effort. Regardless of the outcome, Weisenfeld becomes disgruntled and exposes how students attempt to manipulate and take advantage of teachers by asking, demanding, and using stories of woe in order to convince teachers to issue higher grades.
Why Do Students Plagiarize? Students can easily plagiarize in many ways and it causes them trouble. They will either get zero for the test or fail the course. Moreover, plagiarism damages the relationship between students and professors by undermining the trust that is an important element of the learning process. The question is why do students plagiarize?
A second common description is a discrepancy between predicted achievement and actual achievement. The third description describes a failure to develop or use their potential. There are countless more ways to define or describe an underachieving gifted student but they all attempt to define a very gray area. Trying to address the underachievement by looking at potential and actual results can ignore many factors. It is known that standardized tests are not perfect indicators of knowledge for all students and can have a measurement error.
Who decides this? Is this system effective? Standardized testing is not effective and has produced additional issues in the classroom. Children are not learning, according to standardized test scores. The government, parents, and teachers are trying all they can to come up with a successful solution.
The main purpose of Highschool is to educate people, and to teach them the skills they will need to be successful in their careers and in everyday life. Grades are used to show how well, or how weak a student is doing in a particular subject. However, do grades help or hurt the student? Now days, some professors do not give students exams during the semester. Basically, students get graded on how well they do on the final exam.
How should teachers award and punish their students? Teaching children is a very hard job, not only for parents but also for teachers since some children do not obey their words most the time. In order to let the children be more obedient, parents and teachers may use different kinds of method to encourage or penalize the children. Being a tutorial teacher for a year, I have taught a number of students and also realized some methods are very effective. In case, the student does not obey my instruction, positive punishment, which is the application of an unfavorable stimulus after an undesirable behavior in order to decreases that response, is a very useful method and the result can be shown shortly.
Some would stay it is because students do not want to study and just find it much easier to just purchase a essay online or to park their seat next to the “nerd” in the class to ensure that you ace every pop quiz. Others would say that the pressures of being scholastically advanced are too much of a burden, so they cheat to ensure that their goals are achieved they way their parents and teachers visualize for them. Whatever the reason, is it worth the risk or should students just be satisfied with the grades that they actually earned. Cheating may not always be the first option for some students but end up being the last resort in some situations. In high school, if a child is trying to land scholarship or trying to get into a prestigious school that only accepts the elite of the elite you are pressured to excel in all aspects of your academic career.
Academic dishonesty occurs in many different forms such as sharing answers, plagiarizing or copying homework; sadly, cheating happens daily in most educational intuitions today. Students cheat because of the various academic pressures they have, and simply stated it's the easy way out, but this can later affect a student's academic and professional career. Today's society values "good grades more than knowledge"(Kennedy, 2012), this idea further burdens students with more academic pressures than what already exists which encourages them to cheat and manipulate their knowledge in order to receive better grades. It is normal for a child's parents to expect good grades from their children, but some parents do not realize the overwhelming pressures that lie on a student's shoulder to achieve a grade of excellence. A "C" letter grade represents satisfactory achievement and should not be looked down upon.