Many believe that the pressure to get good grades is learned. I encourage students to try to balance both. Sophomore Lauren Marcus said that people are socialized from a young age to evaluate their performance based on a letter grade. Another question raised about the issue of grading is whether or not grades are even an accurate measure of student knowledge and learning. But the faculty and students are limited with their time.
Students usually know more than any test can show.
Senior Celeste Hutchins agrees with this discrepancy. I think that sometimes professors place more emphasis on test scores rather than what students actually learn. Wilson finds that the same has rung true of her academic experience. Some students believe that answer to these questions may lie in a change in the standard methods of testing and evaluation. Although you have to give grades, I think it would be more helpful if teachers used more projects in evaluating students.