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¶ … Abolish Grading" by Paul Goodman
Paul Goodman's essay entitled, "A Proposal to Abolish Grading" is analyzes the effect of grading to student performance. Goodman's essay raises the question on whether grading is a good measure of determining student performance in schools and universities. The author's position in the essay states clearly that he is against grading as a measure that will be used in determining school performance, and this position is supported by three primary reasons. Goodman's first stance is that the pressure that a student gets from trying to achieve a higher grade in order to pass results to plagiarism and cheating; the second stance concerns the 'irrelevancy" of grading as a measure that will determine whether a student performed very well in school or not, and this is crucial when grades are used for appraising a student for his or her future career; and lastly, grading results to poor student performance because it lacks the personal interaction between the instructor/professor and student,...
These points raised by Goodman can be considered viable, but this does not mean that his stance regarding grading in universities can be accepted earnestly by the author. In fact, although Goodman raises good points in his essay, the author of this paper contend that grading is still a necessary aspect of a student's academic experience because it provides an objective method in measuring student performance and serves as a psychological motivation for the student to perform well in school.
The first contention, wherein the grading system is an objective measure of appraising student performance, proves that the effectiveness of a student's studying and schooling primarily depends on objective measures, specifically the grading system in schools. Grading is vital in school because it eliminates the possibility of creating a 'personal bias' in the instructors/professors' judgment if personal appraisal were to replace grading in…
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