[Korea College Club Q&A] 10. Which grading method is better between absolute and relative grading?
I am for absolute grading. In my opinion, the overheated private education in Korea is because of relative grading. It's wrong to grade someone as '3rd class' ( When a high shool student takes a Uni entrance test, they are graded in 9 classes) when a student makes a mistake and gets one question wrong.
One question difference can't differentiate between students. I hope the ministry of education supports the students to pursue their dreams rather than pressuring them.
I think it's a hard question to answer. It depends on the area and the situation. Absolute grading is great in the aspect of non comparison, and relative grading can pick a more competitive person. There is a strong need to try both and see what works in each situation.
It's hard to make standards when you have to evaluate people. Especially in education, it has been highly controversial for a long period of time. But neither absolute grading nor relative grating has solved education problems. The root of the problem needs to be solved.
To evaluate someone, it's necessary to equalize the starting point and evaluate the process and result in whole. Yet our educational system doesn't include these things, and we talk about the evaluation method only. The main point is not the method of evaluation but changing the educational environment and it's roots.
It depends on what you're evaluating. It could be a uni entrance examination or college grades. For I'm a college student, I'd like to talk about how the evaluation works in colleges. First of all, it's not a good way to seperate evaluation as 'absolute grading' or 'relative grading.' There are questions that you can answer after a lecture (accounting, finance, liberal arts) and classes that grade based on the ppt or writing their thoughts.
I do think relative grading works for the first ones for there are definite answers. Of course there are misfortunate cases of getting a B when you have a grade between A and B or getting a C when you have a grade somewhere in between B and a C.
Still, relative grading is necessary in this case. On the other hand I think it's hard to go for relative grading when it comes to presentation or writing your thoughts. There's no definite answer and I think absolute grading is better in this case.
I am for absolute grading. Relative grading results in an overly competitive society. In this system, we get to calculate who we should outscore in order to get a small amount of A+. This results in students becoming an individualist rather than working as a team.
In some cases, relative gradings seperate grade A from grade B with just one point of a difference. This isn't fair. We are living in an overly competitive society, and we need to learn how to cooperate and be more productive.
I am for absolute grading. Absolute grading is more rational and philosophical. Would you rather compete with yourself from yesterday or tons of other people? Relative grading has a tendency of making people sly and often too individualistic. For we are humans living in a society, we need to learn how to be cooperative rather than overly competing as if we were wild animals.
I think that in nearly all cases relative grading is worse than absolute grading. Some special cases and situations must always be considered, however having relative grading as a general rule seems silly.
Let me give you an example: would you really want a surgeon to be performing in you who would have failed at any university, but only passed because his one class all should have failed and he was simply the best of those that failed?
I think that having relative grading is a major flaw on the education system, and not only for this reason, but also that it encourages people to hope for the worst for others. I think that in some subjects, relative grading may be better, but not for the 90 percent of subjects.
I am for absolute grading..Our country has a strong academic fever. Parents teach their kids to outscore others and the students compete in school. Someone goes up, another has to lose, and these kind of hierarchy starts from a fery young age. Absolute grading will help us escape this pain!!
Absolute evaluation make the students feel less burden. But in the case of relative evaluation, Some might try their best, but they will still feel too much burden.
The students might feel abandoned or inferior. Imposing students to study is not an effective way to learn. They need to realize why they should learn. The most important thing is that every students should learn how to work in society by themselves without someone's help.
The Government's duty is to make an environment of studying and choosing what to do in the future. The student's duty is to do what they really want to do. So I think absolute grading is desirable.
But In Korea the subjects that students are learing are not practical and it is focused on pure learning. So the education should be practical and related to their future . Also, It would be desirable to give gap year to think about what students want to be in the future.
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