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Students and teachers have long complained about the current grading system for high school courses. It is considered unfair and does not reflect what a student really can and does in a subject like math.
Today, a student can take several different course grades in math, depending on how many modules they have read in the subject.
This means that poor performance in an initial module reduces the final grade regardless of what the student achieves towards the end of education. The final grade the student uses to apply to college.
Now the government and the coalition parties They decided they want to change this by replacing today’s course grades with subject grades.
This means that the student must receive a single final grade in the subject itself.
– We want you to evaluate the knowledge that the student has when they have completed the training and not what they have achieved before. It will be much fairer, says Nyamko Sabuni, leader of the Liberal party, the party in the January collaboration that has been the engine of this change.
The current grading system for courses means that a student who may be a mathematical genius but got tired of school in the first part of the first year can get a poor final grade regardless of what they achieve in the third year.
This means that ambitions and efforts don’t pay off as they should, Sabuni says.
She believes that introducing subject grades can motivate more people to push themselves and spend more time studying during the summer and vacations to immerse themselves in a subject and improve, because it has a greater effect on the final grade.
– I also think it will be smaller stress and anxiety, and fewer complaints about grades. The grades should mean an opportunity for the student to show that he has made an effort and has developed.
It will also be easier for students in pure career preparation programs to take the subjects necessary to be eligible for university studies, without having to go through all the modules, according to Nyamko Sabuni.
The proposal has been submitted for consultation and the National Education Agency has been tasked with preparing for the implementation of the change by the end of the first semester of 2022.
– My hope is that it will be implemented by then, says Nyamko Sabuni.
Read more:
“How school grades can be fairer”
“Subject grades are not a quick fix that works”
