A few days ago
Vladimir D

Numeric/letter grades or a narrative analysis?

I am trying to figure out which grading system is better. I personally dislike the Numeric/letter grade system because I think that it makes our schools more bueracratic and inhibts instead of enriching the students experiance in school. Instead of work that is rewarded by a grade I think that a teacher should instead write a narrative that details the strong and weak points of the student’s ability based on his/her performance in school. What do you think? I would apreciate if you could also give me links expaining why one side might be better that the other along with your personal experiance and opinion .

Thank You.

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A few days ago
clueless

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Is this your way of trying to get out of doing your homework?
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A few days ago
Randy W
You have a very strong point, however if you go to a large city there is no way possible that a teacher could write a narrative for each student. Most class sizes are 25-30 to 1 teacher every period over 7 periods that and average of 192.5 Students that the teacher would have to keep a journal on and then the teacher would really have to personally interact with each student to know what their strong or weak point are.

It’s had enough to get a good teacher to student ratio and even harder to get good teachers.

This would add a huge workload to the already swamped teacher.

Don’t misunderstand, I really do agree with you. I just can’t see how a system like this would ever work.

I used to teach CCNA classes for Cisco Networks, and my average class was 75 students. This of coarse is a hard subject to grasp in the time period given, and without the help of graduated students for teachers aides I could have never done it. It seem almost everything in our society has a number grading system and it works I guess that why it’s never been improved upon.

Although I can’t award you any point I feel you deserve at least a huge pat on the back for original thinking.

Best Regards!

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A few days ago
Lord_Benjew
Well, one thing that you have to remember first, student to teacher ratio. If the student teacher ratio is large number of students for one teacher, that would be time consuming and very laborious for the teacher and won’t be fair for the students.

Though I agree to your methods, the reason why we use the numeric/ letter grading in our school system is to take the sum of the students grade and report them to the education department what the progress of the students that attends that school for the school to receive federal funding.

However, having a student evaluated by a teacher by the means of narrative analysis is like giving the student an IQ test. I understand that many students can benefit from such grading process, however; the amount of time spent will not cost efficient and can harm the process of learning since the teacher have to focus on individual students instead of the syllabi that he or she has to teach.

Why would’t it be fair to the student? Because teachers have to be objective to the students, and they can’t be objective since narrative analysis will focus on the student’s ability or inability to learn something, where as the grading system compares each student on their understanding of the subject matter to which they can use their talents or ability to be able to chose the course of action or education that they can or enjoy best in the institute of higher learning.

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A few days ago
Anonymous
It would be great in theory. But as other pointed out, it is not time efficient, and, more importantly, it is a subjective way of grading. Although essays and such are subjective, you cannot have an entire school year be based off of a subjective grade.

Think about it. Say you’re a teacher (maybe you are, Yahoo doesn’t tell me your age) and there’s this one kid. Most annoying kid on the planet. All he does is talk back to you. He’s a trouble maker. You despise this kid. Now he could also be very smart, but you will naturally be biased against him. So, in theory, if you could manipulate your brain to completely block out bias, it would be great. But we’re only human.

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4 years ago
Anonymous
i’m an extremely final 12 months media pupil, even though i did write a tale diagnosis earlier. hence, i could desire to be waiting to furnish you some suggestion. nicely, as you’re doing a tale diagnosis on information thoughts. you should evaluate here approaches; semiotics is one way of analysing a text textile. additionally as its on narrative, you should debate the conventions of a information tale; likewise, it has a commencing up, middle and end. you should observe a tale kind- be it vladimir propp, claude- levi strauss, binary oppositions, for eg, black/white, male/lady, united states of america/britain on your occasion. you besides mght ought to evaluate this sort of language used in the newspapers. likewise, tabloids- eg, the solar, every day mirror, every day action picture star, every day mail place self belief in coloquial-yet formal english, whilst broadsheets- eg, the self sustaining, the circumstances, dad or mum has a extreme usual of grammar. once you quote or write down the headline, clarify on your guy or woman words what your interpretation is of that headline. in case you’re caught, i might recommend you’re taking 2 key terms from that headline and sophisticated what their importance is and in what way are they utilized with the aid of the newpaper on the subject of the certainly tale wish this facilitates!
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