Numeric/letter grades or a narrative analysis?
Thank You.
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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!
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.
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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