This is something I said years ago. Giving grades, term after term, and year after year doesn't help. The grading system is the equivalent of bullying high school students. It's no wonder why students choose to get high on drugs to cope with the grading system. Not only that, but the grading system focuses too much on speed of learning, and not enough on long term memory, and real life problem solving.
I had no idea how bad it was until I worked at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, where Scientists, most of them with post doctoral degrees, needed reminders of the basics when it came time for peer reviewing other scientists. If it is bad at a place that is considered more reputable than the Ivy Leagues, why haven't we put more effort in things such as study skills for the college bound folk?
Please teachers and professors of all kinds, stop focusing on how fast, and instead focus on retention related skills. If it goes into the mind for a test, and pops out before the end of not just a semester, but after several years, that is something that should be taken into strong consideration.
The real test is should be one you can't prepare for, but comes at a completely random time.
I had no idea how bad it was until I worked at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, where Scientists, most of them with post doctoral degrees, needed reminders of the basics when it came time for peer reviewing other scientists. If it is bad at a place that is considered more reputable than the Ivy Leagues, why haven't we put more effort in things such as study skills for the college bound folk?
Please teachers and professors of all kinds, stop focusing on how fast, and instead focus on retention related skills. If it goes into the mind for a test, and pops out before the end of not just a semester, but after several years, that is something that should be taken into strong consideration.
The real test is should be one you can't prepare for, but comes at a completely random time.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/07/09/what-your-high-school-transcript-didn-include-grades/h9V1ZtSTWQqWmqIBzbYwPJ/story.html
