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Should There Be No-Zero Grading Policies in Schools?- No

By: Kimberly Canelas

What is No-Zero Grading Policy?

Introduction

- Prohibiting teachers from giving zereos to students for incomplete/missing work

Summary

Issue

Summary Issue

Research supporting the

case has been weak

Students

Lack accountability

fails to prepare students

for the real world

Is it fair?

Why Zeros'

Zero's

Impact

Impact

- Students and teachers know what zereos stands for in graded assignments

- Students can avoid getting a zero by just doing their asssignment

- If 50% is given for missing work- that is giving an "okay" to students to be able to choose what assignments to turn in and

not do

Fairness

Is it fair?

- Replacing a 0 with a 50% is still giving a grade for work that is not there

- It is not fair to students who put work into their assignmets

- It is like rewarding the lack of work and making it seem acceptable

Real World

Sending Students

into the real world

- Students turning in assignments is showing a way of responsinility.

- No-zero policy is failing to prepare students for their lives after school

-Employers are not going to accept the behavior of no work=fired

Learning

Learning skills

- It is holding accountable for students to do their work making sure they are understanding a concept

- Giving a 50% for incompleteness, does not show if student understood the assisgnment that is given

Research

Research

If No-Zero grading policy

was successful, why is

it not enforced?

No support

given

Weak support in reseach

1

- No sited sources

Lack of evidence

2

- There has been no given proof

- There has been no stats that proove it is soemthing beneficial

No improvement

Research

3

- There has been no research stating that no-zero grading effects in student's improvemnt

Advocates in no-zero grading

4

Is more opioned base then supported evidence

Questions

1. Do you think the no-zero grading policy will prepare the students reality in a professional setting?

2. If the no-zero grading policy is implemented, is there any specific guidlines that should be followed

3, How can you determine if studnets are understanding the material being taught with assignments given.

Questions

Resource:

NO: Michael Zwaagstra, from “Zero Support for No-Zero Policies,” Frontier Centre for

Public Policy (2012)

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