The Effects of Pressure on Students to get Good Grades Introduction: Living in a society like the one we are living today‚ can be very challenging for students. As the world gets more competitive‚ students are getting more pressured to achieve their goals in life. Pressure have become one of the known factors to affect a student’s life. Anyone who passed through this stage has felt the same way. Getting good grades has become one of the goals students today are aspiring for. It has been perceived
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Grades; who needs grades? People often look at grades as a way to judge how a student is doing. If the student is getting a high mark then he or she is understanding and obtaining the knowledge of the class. On the other hand‚ if he or she is getting a low mark he or she is not applying his or herself or possibly being flat out lazy. However this is not always the case. Unfortunately the educational system puts an abundant amount of weight on a grade‚ so it is stressed that the grade received determines
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Grade Inflation Former Stanford President Don Kennedy argues the grades themselves don’t matter–what’s important is the academic quality. Kennedy proposes that the letter grade students score in classes is irrelevant but rather the knowledge gained is what really matters (Kennedy). Teachers and student’s themselves have given letter grades a priority in education‚ losing sight of what is really important. Donald Caruth suggests that there has been an upward shift in grades without a corresponding
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In the article‚ The Case against Grades‚ Alfie Kohn talks about how the grading system is deflecting the actual purpose of why students are interested in classes. He speaks on how grades tend to diminish students and create a preference for what a student has to aim for in his or hers course. I myself have experienced this in my academic life. A student shouldn’t be categorized and put into groups when looking at a grade. When a student enrolls himself into a course‚ let’s say in high school‚ he
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Should Computer Grade Your Essay? In reading this case study it was hard to come to terms that there some Universities that are presently using computer software to grade a student essay. How was that possible‚ how can a computer software understand what a student is writing and why the student is writing those words. This student is thankful that he just has to answer the case study question‚ since when he finishes reading this case study he had more questions than answers. The case study questions
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the way back to 6th grade we were always the littlest ones and I remember feeling like a fish out of water. We were terrified of getting lost or being late for class‚ but excited to have a locker to decorate and change classes each period. It doesn’t seem like that was over 2 years ago at all. We came back in 7th grade‚ much more confident than the year before. We looked down to the new 6th graders‚ asking "Were we really that short just last year?" And by the end of 7th grade I was shocked that I
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Should Students’ Grades in Gym Class Affect Their GPA? I personally do not agree with grades in gym classes affecting students’ grade point averages. I believe that gym class should be strictly for fun. There are many students who are not very athletic. Many females do not enjoy playing sports or running a mile. I do not think it is fair that schools make their students run a full mile‚ time them on it‚ and grade them on their times. Certain students are not great runners and the fact that
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I’m going to tell you about my life from the end of 7th grade to the end of 8th grade. At the end of seventh grade I had went to both my brothers C-tec and Watkins graduation. After both graduations we had a graduation party and I got to see family members I haven’t seen in forever. I got to hang out with my cousin and eat a lot of delicious foods. A few days later it was the last day of school and all I did was hang out with all of my friends. After that it was finally summer! My whole summer pretty
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English 102 22 January 2012 4th grade slump! When I see my little cousins reading a book‚ I see their eyes are shine with excitement‚ and they can’t wait to read the book out loud to their parents or to me. As they get older‚ that excitement in their eyes is gone and I would wonder‚ why? Then I took this course and found out what the 4th grade slump is. So‚ what is 4th grade slump? There are many reasons why educators call it the 4th grade slump and there is one simple explanation: when a student
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SECOND GRADE The summer before second grade‚ I had met and been rejected by my first and last crush ever. “Can I play with you?” I said to him‚ one foot still on my dark blue razor scooter. “No! You’re a girl! I don’t play with girls!” he screamed‚ getting the attention of the entire playground. Stubborn six year old me was not about to take no for an answer. Leaning my scooter against a tree‚ I deftly used my ninja skills to pounce on the moving merry-go-round. “Na na na boo boo‚ you can’t make
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