A Proposal to Abolish Grading

In every education system, grading and exam are done simultaneously so as teachers and lectures can know the capabilities of their students and whether they consider assimilated what have been taught and used effectively.Most of universities and higher learning institutions as prerequisite of students assenting is being tested before granted admission, the system help the universities assessing applicants capabilities in correspondence to their applications.The grading system which is conducted after certain amount of academic units covered of students respective courses or subjects, apart from assessing students capabilities, also assist them in themeing especially for lazy students. When students know that there will be grading for the tests they are going to do, definitely they are going to study hard for it.I tend to differ with Paul Goodman in his proposal to remove grading as the notion has been much effective for quite any(prenominal) time and has helped most of student s scoring profound grades even though they were lazy. hardly to Paul Goodman, who proposed the abolishment of grading take this as bullying students as he argues that Many students are lazy, so teachers try to goad or threaten them by grading. In the long run this must do more harm than good.(Paul Goodman, Mis-Education, 1971).Nevertheless, grading system assist in discovering tidy sum weaknesses being students or applicants to the higher learning. Through grading students can be able to spot their weaknesses in accordance with the type of grades they get either low or high. If low then students have an opportunity of cognize how to correct it so as to improve their grades, hence becoming knowledgeable.Despite the good intention the system has, there are setbacks that have been spotted by Paul Goodman as he argues that But if the aim is to discover weakness, what is the plosive of down-grading and punishing it, and thereby inviting the student to conceal his weakness, by fakin g and bullying, if not swindling?(Paul Goodman, Mis-Education, 1971).In conclusion, even though students might cheat during their assignments, yet they will be working hard in the tests and examinations which will help them study. Grading and testing system still assist students to learn more through the murder of their grades.ReferenceGoodman Paul, A proposal to abolish grading, Mis-Education, (1971), Chapter 10, John Wiley New York