Giving grades based only on performance, or grading students not just on performance but also on their effort?

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Your professor is teaching a class on education. Write a post responding to the professor`s question. In your response, you should do the following.
• Express and support your opinion.
• Make a contribution to the discussion in your own words.
An effective response will contain at least 100 words.

Doctor Gupta

This week，I want you to discuss assessment criteria. Some schoolteachers give high grades (marks) only to those students who perform well on their homework assignments and tests. Other teachers, however, may give high grades to students who have worked very hard on their assignments but have not performed so well. Which approach do you think is better: Giving grades based only on performance, or grading students not just on performance but also on their effort?

Kelly

I think grades should be based on performance only. It’s a matter of fairness. I’d be really upset if another student got nearly the same grade that l did when l turned in work that was almost perfect and the other student’s work had incorrect answers or unclear ideas. It wouldn’t matter to me if they worked harder.

Paul

Sure, evaluation should mainly be based upon the student’s performance, but hard work should count for something. A student who works hard, even when the final grade isn’t the highest in the class, builds character, which will benefit the student later in life when they go to university or apply for a job.

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I am of the opinion that grades should be determined strictly by performance, a viewpoint that aligns with Kelly's argument for ensuring fairness across all students. Additionally, I assert that grading based purely on performance can streamline the evaluation process for educators and ensure uniformity. This approach allows educators to establish clear, measurable criteria for success that can be consistently applied to every student, eliminating the ambiguity and potential for bias that comes with evaluating effort. Effort, by its nature, is subjective and challenging to measure accurately.

While Paul noted the importance of acknowledging hard work for character development and its long-term advantages for students, he overlooked that outcomes are often more valued than effort in various real-world contexts, such as in professional environments or higher educational settings. While effort is commendable, it is ultimately performance that is most frequently used as the benchmark for success. Therefore, emphasizing performance in grading could better equip students for these future realities.

In summary, I strongly advocate for grades to be based exclusively on performance.
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