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 Illustrating in the Article ‘’End of Grades’’ Provides good examples on why grades should be gone for students. Because students tend to get stressed out when they have an assignment and they have to do well in order to get a good grade on it. Once you put a grade to an assignment it can become something that a student does not put in the effort and will do poorly on it. Most likely they do not   want to do it or doing it to get it over with. Also if the assignment is to long students will only read half and miss a major part of the assignment they had to do. The student can get caught up in trying to do it perfectly and forget that effort needs to be shown in order to do well on the assignment. Teachers will get the student everything they need to know about the project or paper and all the student cares about is will this be on the test. Not giving students the chance to take their time on the paper to put in   the best effort they can on it. When a student gets back a paper they should be feeling like the effort they put in was their best work. Students should be able to feel at ease with their grades and if there's a problem go to your teacher and figure out what you can do to improve. Grades can not really prove if you learned because if you did study for the test sometimes students can panic and forget everything once they get the test. That grading is not an accurate tool to see if a if they student really knows the material being taught in class.



 Author: Alfie Khon
 
Ethos: why grades should go away
 

Objectivity/bias: Subjectivity to grades and bias against having grades at school Sources/Support: The article ‘’end of grades. Supported by teachers and Alfie Kohn to end grades in school. Thesis: How grades can not measure how accurately know the material being taught. To really know if they learned it. 
Tone: Reflective tone on the author being highly opinionated about grades 

Opinion: I really do believe that grades should be gone due to stress and being overwhelmed about doing it well. That it can be a waste if you the article that is with the assignment is long that no one is going to read it though and really get the idea and being able to explain it well. Because you really can't know if someone learned the material or not just based on their grade unless their effort was not there. 














































    

                                     

The Case Against Grades   Alfie Kohn." Alfie Kohn. N.p., 02 Nov. 2011. Web. 08 Oct. 2015.