Why do we grade students?I've always wondered... why do we have grades? To see students' knowledge? To hold students' "accountable"? To get into college? To be valedictorian? I saw kids who teachers would describe as "they're smart but they don't care" with Cs and Ds and other kids who played the game so well they knew nothing but had A's but didn't always know the content and skills. I was think kid in high school A's and some B's in AP classes. However in college, going to liberal arts school I realize that my skills and experiences outweighed my grades. I still got decent grades but I did care less. So to write this blog post I did a little digging. According to Wikipedia, grading began in in 1785 at Yale and the quantitative scale was first implemented at The University of Cambridge. GPA is from a 1.0 to 4.0 scale and turns out doesn't show a correlation between grades and job performances (shocking). And grade inflation is so bad at universities grades are becoming useless. It seems like grading is a practice that was made such a long time ago, we just do it because it's what we've always done.
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