Generally, I am in the same reasoning line with you. I don’t like grading system and it will narrow our vision and decrease our motivation to learning and exploring more for your interest. Since I am working on some research related with product reviews, the motivations of users to contribute their opinions and ideas are the same logic for motivations of students to learn. Grading systems usually are considered as extrinsic motivations, which will lower students’ intrinsic motivations to study. Even though to some certain extent grading will help students know their weaknesses in some topic, most of students only pursue final scores and don’t care what weaknesses they have. Sometimes, professors in a college just gave a score for their courses’ evaluation. Therefore, even if some students know they made some mistakes in some subjects, they don’t have any opportunities to know what they are and how they are solved. In essential, grading as an incentive system is extrinsic but it is based on the intrinsic motivation of students who want to improve themselves from the final result. So the grading should go back to the real meaning of “it”, then it will does make sense for the motivation to learn for students.
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