Stephen,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I definitely agree with a lot of what you said and it made me wonder if the way some teachers phrase how they present some of the information, does that cause more students to only study for the test? I’m sure that is probably not the case but it just made me curious. This course has been better at getting me to think more about the process/structure than previous courses and I am curious the direction education ends up going in the future.

Chris,

I really appreciated your comment about you turned out fine when you were assessed using a grading system, but since being in grad school I understand that there might be some flaws in the system. I think going cold turkey would be very interesting to see what would happen especially with older professors who know nothing besides grades and the current system. My only question is how do you determine/assess a student’s success in a course then if there are no grades?

Ashley,

Thank you for sharing your experiences with all of us! I definitely had a different experience but can see how your experience leads you to dislike the current system and can easily make others dislike the system based on what you have said. However, I want to pose the question of what do you think could be a different way of assessing a student’s success? I ask that question because to me the way to assess success for math or science may look differently than english, but I agree the way we grade and/or the emphasis on grades is currently making people value who they are based on a letter which needs to change.