success should be measured by an overall achivement not by the number of A's(result)?

Question

my answer is yes. The aim of study aint emphasis on the result, the more important is how much have we gain in the proses of learning and the things we learned can help us how much. (sry for my broken english). how do you think?give me your reason

Answer 1

i agree, the most successful students are the ones who have made the biggest gains in their education, if they start as a D student and become a C or B student then thay have acheived more than someone who consistently gets an A

Answer 2

Other than A's, B's etc, how can you measure achievement? There is a certain amount of knowledge a student should be able to demonstrate the mastery of to qualify as being ready to progress to the next grade. Just because a particular student learned "a lot" doesn't mean he learned enough to qualify.

Imagine you are trying to learn to swim. You start the year unable to swim and knowing nothing about swimming. After a year you know about swimming but you still cannot swim. Handing you an achievement certificate will not save you from drowning. It is important to know about swimming techniques, terminology and safety precautions. But you also must be able to pass a swim test.

Successful students are the ones who can demonstrate a sufficient mastery of the subject matter when tested. If they had to achieve a lot or a little to be able to demonstrate it is immaterial.

Answer 3

Congratulations! Your question is such a good one that the responses are all high quality.

If "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" then "success is in the eye of the measurer".

It depends who is asking. Yes, improvement is important. Is a student who came into the class knowing everything the teacher was going to teach as successful as the student who came in knowing none of it and left knowing at least 75% of it?

From the teacher's perspective, I measure my success at how much improvement my students have made. I also am concerned with how well I have presented the curriculum and how successful my class is at having mastered the concepts and learned the facts.

From the parent's perspective, I measure my child's success at how much improvement my child is making and how happy my child is at school.

From the conscientious student's perspective, I am happy when I improve but I still feel pressured to be studying the same material as the rest of the class and want to get high marks.

Post-secondary schools are starting to modify their programs to work with students who have individual learning needs. Unfortunately, schools are usually judged by how well their students do on standardized tests.

The goal of education should be to prepare students to participate responsibly in society which includes being able to learn a profession or trade and work successfully at it. (Gone are the days when people worked at one job until retirement and the gold watch.) Once we learn that not all students are going to be "professionals" and that it is just as valid to be able to work at a skilled trade then we will accept that student success can also be measured individually.

Answer 4

I agree that that is how it should be measured. However, reality is different from theory. Universities need to know that people applying for admittance have a certain knowledge base and the ability to survive in the university system. If we base our grades on improvement, rather than what they know, we could have someone with straight A's applying for university, but who can only read or do math at a grade 7 or 8 level. These people would not be able to survive at university. Therefore, until a better system is devised, we will have to continue measuring students' achievement by letter grades.

Answer 5

Yes. Theory is different from application. There is school smarts & there's street smarts. The A's are just school's quantitative way to rate students. This is Industrial Age's performance basis for a High Tech world.

If you notice nowadays, there are wholistic schools, just as there are wholistic hospitals, resorts, spas, etc. These cater to the new & current High Tech, fast-paced world.

Answer 6

Success is a tricky thing to measure, after all, we don't all have the same starting point. So, the end result can at times be a faulty measure. I for one agree with you. Success is not where you end up, but where you end up in relation to where you started.