Grading System

The grading system of UH is a problem. For sure, students care about the grades. Some of them worried about it if they didn't make A in classes. Some of them afraid of failing the courses. Parents want their kids to make good grades, also. The grading system of UH make the students working hard if they want to get good grades. Grading system is a problem, to solve this problem we should vote for it. Let the student and parents tell the school whether they want to change it or not.

At UH, we have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+ and CÐ'... If you got A, GPA (grade point average) counted as 4. If you got A-, GPA counted as 3.67. You need to get 93 or above to make an A. "The grade point average is a numerical representation of a student's overall academic achievement" (UH). Different professors have different grading ways. If the course is really hard, the professor would lower the grade level for get an A. Some professor said if you make 89.99999999 on your test, you still got a B. the professor just gave three tests in one semester. This system make the way to get an A more harder. The number of students who got higher GPA would be lesser. "The tying of students' GPA to so many aspects of their lives makes the grading system a coercive structure that often

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inhibits students from taking the intellectual risks that good education demands" (Rediehs). Because of their financial aid, parental support, athletic participation, or

acceptance into study abroad programs students caring more about their grades than their education. These things are all depend on the GPAs. "This attitude of caring more about grades than education can undermine instructors' pedagogical goals, inhibit effective communication of feedback from instructor to student, and can also discourage the development of students' independent thought and internal sources of intellectual motivation" (Rediehs).

It's unfair for the students. As I know, most of the United States' Universities were not using this kind of system. They used A, B, C, and DÐ'... in their system. That means if the

student in their school got 90 on average. He can get an A, which is 4.0 GPA. If the students from the universities that have these two grading systems to apply for the same job, scholarship or any other things. It's unfair. They were not on the same grading system level. The company doesn't care which colleges are the students from. They care about what score they get and how well they done at college. The opportunities are not equal for the students. If the grading system changed, there might be more people getting As. The four-points grading system has the virtue of being simple and easy to comprehend quickly.

One University changed their nine-point system to four-points grading system in September 2003. The University initiated a review of the grades and grade point averages (GPAs) of the students, after the fall semester grades were submitted. First Class