...better learning conditions for students. Most people agree with the current academic system; however, some people strongly argue that there are some issues with the system, such as grade inflation and lack of improvement of the educational system. In the article “What Our Education System Needs Is More F’s,” by Carl Singleton, the author begins by pointing out the problems of the current education system of America. He argued that many professors tend to over-mark their students’ grades even though some of the students are ineligible for a passing grade. Singleton suggested giving F’s to students is more important for the educational system rather than investing more money in schools or providing better teaching. According to his argument, low-quality teaching has become widespread these days because of low-quality teachers who don’t completely understand the required materials they are teaching in their classrooms. He asserted the quality of education will not be improved unless teachers give F’s to students who need a certain time to understand all of the materials; providing higher salaries or making complex procedures of certification won’t be much help the students or the teachers. Singleton said the problem is that the school system has ignored those students who unearned grades over 2 decades; they got B’s instead of C’s, C’s instead of D’s, and D’s instead of F’s. If the students went their home with F’s, their parents might have realize the seriousness of...
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...Why shoot us down with bad grades? You want to see us succeed, right? In the article “What our education system needs is more F’s,” by Carl Singleton, he argues why he feels that students should receive more F’s instead of passing grades. He gives a great argument about his position, and he points out things such as, why teachers don’t give F’s to students and How that is affecting kids from elementary school to post-graduates. Although some may feel the education system may need more F’s, the grades that replace the F’s are more important to the students’ confidence and self-esteem as a person outside of school. Carl Singleton makes a great argument, and quickly establishes a position getting started. In the beginning of the writing he states,...
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...in the classroom. However, if a teacher has a negative outlook and does not let the students know exactly what is expected, the classroom will not run as smooth and the students’ grades might be poor. There are many expectations that would positively influence student achievement. The five that will be covered in this paper are arriving on time and prepared, positive communication with classmates and the teacher, completing a reading log each night, turning assignments in on time, and paying attention in class. When addressing a fourth grade classroom, asking students to arrive on time and be prepared would be an expectation that would influence a student’s academic achievement. There are many reasons why it is important for students to arrive to class on time. First of all, a fourth grade classroom is busy and has a full day of activities each day. Arriving late would cause a student to not only miss out on an important morning activity, but it would be disruptive to other students who are moving on to their next assignment. The same is said when asking a student to come to class prepared. The unprepared student is not only taking valuable time out of his or her day, but that of his classmates. This expectation would influence the students’ academic achievement by not only setting them up to be responsible and prompt, but courteous to the time management of others. A student who arrives on time will not miss out on any of the day’s activities, and will get everything...
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...In “What Our Education System Needs Is More F’s”, Carl Singleton emphasizes that America’s education system could benefit from the idea of giving F’s to students who deserve them. Singleton believes that if education systems throughout the United States would raise their standards and start giving out failing grades, student’s motivation to learn the material would increase. He strongly advocates that all parties involved with the education system: teachers, parents, and the school boards contribute to the system’s failure. Singleton feels that teachers contribute by passing undeserving students who have not learned the required class material. He also states that parents would become more engaged with their children’s studies if they brought home more F’s. When it comes to the school boards, he says that students failing would cause schools to receive more funds. Overall, Singleton strongly believes that failing more students would better America’s education system (192-194). Carl Singleton, a Fort Hays State University faculty member and author of “What Our Education System Needs Is More F’s”, from Writing from Sources, strongly believes that students who do not understand the required knowledge for a class should be given an F. In his article, Singleton claims: “The basic problem of our educational system is the common practice of giving credit where none has been earned . . .” (192). He states that, the main issue within America’s educational system is that students are receiving...
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...As a senior in high school, keeping your grades up is very hard. Especially having extracurricular actives going on, I can never keep up. This makes me very nervous for college. But as I read the article “The Chronicle of Higher Education: Grades Out, Badges In”, it has been brought to my attention that there is a toss up between continuing to give out letter grades or giving out education-badges. This education-badge project is runned by the Mozilla Foundation, to give students online badges on their website. The reason why this project was invented, is that the founder, Erin Knight, thought that grades shifts students goals. Knight thinks stakes are high when the result of an entire course is just a single letter, not telling you if you understand it or not. I think the badges are a good idea. For a person who doesn’t test well and needs to take time on understanding, I think badges would help me....
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...Children Should Be Allowed to Fail Nowadays, children are given medals for any and everything. Participation, consolation, 8th, 9th, and even 10th place awards. They are given above average grades for less than average work and given passing grades when they should have received failing ones. This way, they never feel like they have failed and no one is a loser. Is this something we should really be teaching our kids? Teachers are pressured to pass kids in school so they can continue teaching. The No Child left behind, and laziness of the workforce in education play a huge part in the declining value of a high school education. High school graduates are forced to go to college to get a decent job, and even then it is a huge gamble weather or not they will get work. The graduation rate of high school graduates have raised over the years. When I was growing up, there were no ‘consolation’ trophies because your team was last and teachers did not curve your bad grade because everyone else had a good grade. Earning a trophy – even for third place – was exciting because you or your team was good enough to beat the other kids. You tried harder and did better and got to stand with your trophy and certificate and have your fifteen minutes of fame as your parents took pictures and, subsequently, told their friends about your accomplishment and showed off the pictures and your award. I can remember a time when I was in middle school and I had a good friend that went by the...
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...best student can only be selected by order of merit; and for every winner there is a loser. It is a fact that cannot be objected. However, what I dispute is notion that success is purely dependent on the classroom performance. Student success isn’t based off what they are being taught for their own gain of knowledge, but rather than just being taught to pass the exams and uphold good grades. Education can be more equitable to all students by realizing and accepting the fact that each student is different than another, understanding ones interest and talents, being more inclusive to students with all learning types and background, and by eliminating the letter grade system. Education may be the surest and easiest key to success but definitely not the only one. Moreover, with changing times, nothing is assured anymore. You can attain higher education and still be on your way for a considerable number of months or even years looking for a job after your graduation. The term easy is also relative, because if education could be that easy; then why isn’t everyone successful in it? Why are there low grades in the education system, if it is something that is meant to be passed by almost anyone?...
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...to work. However, these incentives are clear. A student goes to work because they need to get an education to get a good job. And an employee goes to work because they have bills to pay. However, when your basic needs are being met, what motivates someone to, for example, cheat? Or for parents, how to make your child go to the bathroom on their own. A film based on the book, Freakonomics, economist, Steven D. Levitt, and, Stephen Dubner discuss how using an incentive to get what you want from someone can work in some situations and may not in another. They use examples from Sumo wrestlers and their own children. In addition, they conducted an experiment at a high school in Chicago Heights, Illinois to see if by giving students money in exchange for bringing their grades up. Because incentives is something that motivates one to do something; it sometimes could be used to illicit positive results. Daniel Pink wrote a book called, Drive, a title he used to as a synonym for motivation. Pink use to write speeches for vice president, Al Gore, while he was in office. Pink has done extensive research on motivation. He explains how there are two types of motivation, 1.0 and 2.0. Pink explains that motivation 1.0 was the primitive motivation that we had, when people were nomads and hunted and foraged for food, searched for security and finding mates. This was to simply take care of their most basic human necessities. As we evolved, we became motivated my rewards and punishment, what...
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...false hope? Can you think of examples from your own life when you had to give up something to meet a goal and found the price to high?” During the payment that both the gypsy woman and the old man asked for a payment in return, both payments included as one-tenth of the treasure and one-tenth of Santiago’s flock. The payment that represents false hope is the gypsy woman because she asked something from Santiago that he didn’t have yet. This was the one-tenth of treasure in return. The gypsy woman said to Santiago that she believes he will find the treasure, even though the Gypsy woman didn’t give Santiago any recent information on how to find...
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...read so far. In language arts if you happen to fail a test you can stay after on language designated clinic days to repair the grade to at least a seventy percent. One of the Language Arts teacher at Gulf Coast Charter Schools says, “The best book the incoming sixth grade class will be reading is The Watson’s go to Birmingham, because it teaches you a lot about the civil rights movement.” You will have many writing assignments. One of the...
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...or not. According to USA Today: “Tight local budgets and reduced federal funding for police, along with new anti-terrorism duties, have stretched police departments and led to cuts in community programs for youths.” All kids need a safe place to be after school, even if it’s for study hall or a quiet place where they could do their homework. After school programs can help children a lot and in many ways. They have an impact on kids because it gives them something to do and it provides them with positive role models. Some of the ways that after school programs can help children is by giving them a safe and supportive learning environment after school, opportunities to experience new activities in arts, culture, life skills, and recreation, a chance to build relationships with their peers, and a way to stay out of trouble. School sports are also important after school activities that help kids grow up and learn many different skills they can apply to their futures. Every child should have the opportunity to participate in after school activities because it helps them grow in many ways. A very...
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...effect on some students that can’t afford coaching tutorials, which improve the scores of the exam with high percentage. * List of Alternatives: * Replace Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) With American College Testing (ACT ) * Replace the SAT with intelligence test, for only scientific sections of the college while making the SAT optional, for other sections replacing it with personal interview, giving it the same weight of the SAT. * Lower the weight of SAT against the high school grades, extra-curricular activities and achievements and written theme submitted to be: I. High school grades 40% II. Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores 25% III. extra-curricular activities and achievements 20% IV. written theme submitted 15% * Evaluating Alternatives: * Alternative 1: Replace (SAT) with (ACT ) I. ACT has less pressure on students than SAT, because The ACT is an achievement test, measuring what a student has learned in school, but the SAT is more of an aptitude test, testing reasoning and verbal abilities. II. The ACT has up to five components: English, Mathematics, Reading, Science, and an optional Writing Test. The SAT has only three components: Critical Reading,...
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...ld students be allowed to grade their teachers? Teachers and students both are the main part of the school. School doesn’t work the either ways. Teachers make us study and improve, while we implement it. Teachers grade us on our basic skills as well as the way we study and improve. But what if the teacher is not capable enough to do so? We should get a chance to grade them too. Almost all schools doesn’t encourage this kind of grading, or maybe none does. According to me this type of grading should be taken into account. Teachers should be graded on their teaching skill, behaviour in class and the interaction level with the students. What if the teacher is very strict and over rules the children or a single child? The child has to remain quiet and keep on facing it, as he doesn’t have any right to oppose him or make him realise, that what he/she is doing is wrong. The grading of the teachers would help the school to understand the children’s problem. If the teacher is not making the students study up to the mark, they have no options other than implementing by self. This kind of problems arise in all the schools but no schools try to solve it or make a better way. If all the schools would help the students this way, the students would love learning as well as will like to interact with the teachers. All the grades given to the teachers should be taken into account and should be checked by the higher authorities. If this happen then all schools would have students who would...
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...study is what will take you far. As we all know time is a scarce resource. We want more, but have to do it a limited TIME frame, and scarcity is just that, limited resources. This forces us to make choices, choices that we might not want to make, but have to. Opportunity cost is the most valued alternative, meaning giving up something you want to do but can’t really do. In my case that would be studying instead of pointless time wasting on things that could be dealt with later on in the week. It’s better to chose a goal that will really benefit you in the long run. 2. When making a decision, are the costs and benefits equally important to you? Why or why not. Based on your chart, explain which category, costs or benefits, would have the largest impact on your decision? ◘ When making a decision I would say that the cost and benefits are not equally important. Why not, because I feel the benefits are the positive effect of the cost. To me the benefit category would have the largest impact on my decision. I want positive results from what I gave up for it. In my dilemma, studying is my number one priority right now for my grade’s. I need good grades, because good grade lead you into an awesome college, then into a bright...
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...COURSE INFORMATION Class Days: Friday Class Times: 1:00 to 3:40 PM Class Location: EBA 345 Blackboard: blackboard.sdsu.edu Office Hours Times (and by appointment): TH 3:30 – 5:00 F 3:45 – 5:00 Office Hours Location: EBA 322 Units: 3 Course Overview Statistical methods applied to business decision making. (Formerly numbered Information and Decision Systems 301.) The objective of this course is for students to achieve an understanding of fundamental statistical techniques and how they are applied to decision making and the scientific method. Greater emphasis is placed on the application and interpretation, as opposed to the mathematical derivation, of the techniques covered. The content of this course is essential for any student pursuing an undergraduate business major and any person involved in organizational decision making. This course is intended to help satisfy the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) curriculum criterion for management specific knowledge in the area of “Statistical data analysis and management science as they support decision-making processes throughout an organization.” Student Learning Outcomes BSBA students will graduate being: • Effective Communicators • Critical Thinkers • Able to Analyze Ethical Problems • Global in their perspective • Knowledgeable about the essentials...
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