Blog #7

One of the greatest inadequacies of in grading is that there are a lot of students that are grouped according to what a grade has said that their comprehension and retention levels are. The reality of the matter is that most grades are truly ambiguous and are given in accordance to what the professor deems to be acceptable or unacceptable, instead of a rigid standard across the board. In turn you have several perspectives from different professors, as to how a student is doing and if he/she has actually learned the course. In most cases students do miss out on the true value of what they learn, just to achieve a letter grade. The solution to this problem is to keep the grading system, only to be able to allow the student and the teacher to gauge where he/she, the student, is academically. In turn, the daily grading would not be used to determine the students GPA. You would then have course exit tests, that are “standardized”, that are the same across the board for each student, for each course given. You would then afford each student the same chance, which in turn would obliterate the ambiguity encompassed in our grading system as they are presently.