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Even if some people who don't like to study, they would at least agree with that the evaluation of academic performance should exist since it can be used to various purposes such as entering company, getting into higer instititute of education. The issue here is whether awarding prizes will be important than giving good grades. In my opinion, I strongly believe that grading each student is better than giving them prizes, and my view can be greatly substantiated by the reasons addressed below.
To begin with, to mark a grade is as crucial as giving prizes to the students because it is a more general and easy way of measuring achievements. In other words, although prizes are also recorded in the student's registry, the standardized index of the student's accomplishment can be done through what their points are. For instance, there exists GPA, a common standardized point system in every university. The full mark of GPA is either four point three or four point five. Using this united system of marking, everyone is able to see easily how they have studied. The grades can be utilized at getting into a graduate school or a company, where the GPA of the applicants is more needed to assess the requirements rather than what they have awarded.
Moreover, the point system is absolute while the awards is relative. That is to say, while awarding prizes like choosing a winner or the last is decided by the collection of the members, the absolute point shows how the students have achieved by numerizing the students' performances. To be specific, according to the recent experiments conducted by the High Education Association in Korea, marking points rather than ranking students showed a more positive influence to the subjets. The association seperated a group of students who got an easy math test into two groups, some of which were informed of their rankings and awarded by it, and others were just noticed about their points. Two groups were virtually similar in distribution of the test results and their points were over than ninety which resulted from the low difficulty of the test. However, as ranking system showed low ranks to those who didn't virtually got a bad scores, their academic motivation got low. This experiment illustrates that the student with high accomplishments would be able to be discouraged in awarding system.
To make a closing remark, it seems certain that grading mark is a better way than awarding prizes to the students. The score is the normal form of evaluating people, which would be the reason many of associations use the point system. Also, in that the points are absolute while awards are not, giving prizes would dissuade students who didn't got the prize from studying hard.
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