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Some people think that providing students
with grades has no more positive effect than doing nothing. However, in my
opinion, providing students with grades promotes students’ learning. This is
because a test can tell students and teacher students’ accomplishment.
To begin with, when students took a test,
by grading their scores , teachers and students can know how much students understand
the subjects. For students, analyzing their scores, they can find which part they
lack and what subjects are their strength and weakness. There was a survey
conducted by Gallup with 200 students as respondents to determine how they treat
their scores. Over 67% for students answered that getting scores was helpful to
them in many aspects. The reason was revealed to be when they got their scores table
they tried to find out which parts or subjects they are good at and asked their
teachers how to make up their weakness. The
students also responded that their scores made them to study harder and also
made them get higher scores.
On top of that, when results of test are
revealed they can be helpful to teachers who have to adjust their class. Like students,
teachers have to know what parts their students lack because if they want to
promote their students’ capability they have to gear their class to students current
level. As class level is tightly related with students accomplishment, teachers
have to analyze the scores and find out how to make up their class to be fitted
to students. When I was a student teacher, the most difficult part of planning
my class was how high I was required to expect students’ level. To find out
this, I asked teachers if I could get students’ latest test and their scores. After
analyzing their scores, I was able to fit my class as possible as I could. Fortunately,
many students said that they was satisfied with the class and they could understand
much of it without much problems.
To sum up, by taking a test teachers and
students can know students’ status and that result can be helpful to both of them
by telling which part is their weakness and what class is needed to be adjusted.
In this regard, I firmly believe that it is essential to take tests to promotes
students learning.
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