Should Grading System Replace by Written Evaluation?
Option 1: Giving students grades does more harm than good. Schools should replace grades with written evaluations of the student’s strengths and weaknesses. These would benefit both students and parents.
According to the report from National Suicide Registry Malaysia, the suicide rates among students keep increasing, and stress from school work is one of the main factors. This situation should be prevented by replacing grading system with written evaluations. Although written evaluation is not the perfect system for evaluating students as it may contain evaluator bias, written evaluations can produce quality students, provide better learning environment, and give specific feedback on students.
Currently, our education system is producing quantity students who concern about how many As they obtain. However, written evaluations could produce quality students who can think, and apply what they have learn. Under the new system, students able to shift their main focus on learning for marks to real interest in subjects. Quality but not quantity students are what we needs as national future pillars of the country. Students who pass with flying colors should also equip themselves with social skills to perform well in their future or to obtain scholarships. For example, employers will mostly hire students who can perform well, and present themselves during the interviews as compared to those who have only obtained excellent grades. Employees are people who solve problems for the company, but not robots that only follow employers’ orders.
Labeling students with grades will bring psychological impact such as, low self-esteem and unnecessary stress. For instance, when students see an F on an exam paper they have put effort into; they will feel disappointed and worried about how their parents will react. When this situation continues to happen for a long time, they will feel that they are not on the right track, and are losers whereas those who score high grades feel
According to the report from National Suicide Registry Malaysia, the suicide rates among students keep increasing, and stress from school work is one of the main factors. This situation should be prevented by replacing grading system with written evaluations. Although written evaluation is not the perfect system for evaluating students as it may contain evaluator bias, written evaluations can produce quality students, provide better learning environment, and give specific feedback on students.
Currently, our education system is producing quantity students who concern about how many As they obtain. However, written evaluations could produce quality students who can think, and apply what they have learn. Under the new system, students able to shift their main focus on learning for marks to real interest in subjects. Quality but not quantity students are what we needs as national future pillars of the country. Students who pass with flying colors should also equip themselves with social skills to perform well in their future or to obtain scholarships. For example, employers will mostly hire students who can perform well, and present themselves during the interviews as compared to those who have only obtained excellent grades. Employees are people who solve problems for the company, but not robots that only follow employers’ orders.
Labeling students with grades will bring psychological impact such as, low self-esteem and unnecessary stress. For instance, when students see an F on an exam paper they have put effort into; they will feel disappointed and worried about how their parents will react. When this situation continues to happen for a long time, they will feel that they are not on the right track, and are losers whereas those who score high grades feel