Informative Essay On School Badges

For years now the grading scale has always been a single letter, that single letter decided if you were accepted into college, graduated with a degree, and if you landed the job. The future of that single letter is now being questioned by educators. Some believe grades are meaningless or broken. There is a new technique that may accompany or even take the place of grades. Education badges is the new thing that some college professors are testing. This new idea of grading is very exciting to me and I hope see more schools transform their grading policy.
What are these badges though? The first time I received a badge in my college english class I was confused. Not until now do I fully understand what they mean, so let a student explain to you what these new things mean. Badges of completion or masterization is a new technique teachers and professors are using to grade students. The new badge technique is being used in only one of my classes mostly because it is still developing and being tested. When I achieved a certain thing or spent time on my Southeast english course, I would gain points. Each time I would gain a certain set amount of XP points I would level up, just like a video game. The highest
The employer is able to view the portfolio of the student and decide based on the badges if the person is qualified for the job. Mr. Watson a professor for Purdue University states that students are able to build their own degree with these badges (Young, Jeffery). He explains this more in depth using video game design. Purdue University does not have a degree for that occupation, but a student could take multiple classes and earn badges to show that they are fully equipped for the job. For this to work, I believe that there needs to be a national standard of badges that students are awarded. That way employers can understand and not discriminate on people who do not have certain