A typical day for children Monday through Friday usually involves attending school for roughly six to seven hours before they come back at home to carry on the rest of their day. While they are at school, students are sitting behind a desk listening to the teacher lecture, taking notes, completing homework, and taking quizzes or test periodically. Day in and day out, children are consistently being grading on every assignment and every quiz or test. There’s not a thing that they do that isn’t worth some kind of points toward their grade. School is supposed to be a stepping stone toward their future goals, however have you ever wondered how grading effects students? While grading is used to determine one understanding there are many disadvantages to grading students that we should take into consideration.
In America the most traditionally used grading system is the 10-point scale. An A ranges between 100-90 percent, a B ranges between and 89-80 percent, and so on. In the United States grading system, students can receive a
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Grades actually have a lot of disadvantages that get brushed aside quite often. Alfie Kohn says, “grades tend to reduce students’ interest in the learning itself” (Kohn 75). In school, students are informed that their assignment will be graded or information they will want to study for a test. To the students, they begin to associate school as just another task or chore that must be completed. “Study after study has found that students- from elementary school to graduate school, and cultures-demonstrates less interest in learning as a result of being graded” (Kohn 76). As a result, students tend to become more grade orientated decreasing the amount of learning orientation. Those who are grade orientated are particularly driven by receiving good grades rather than any interest in learning the content being