- David Bradley - Fayetteville, AR - United States Project
Manager, ALPFA Institute to grade people in high school on
improvement vs. right or wrong Would it not be a better idea to
recognize improvement vs. intelligence? I know that there would
have to be careful attention paid to bias, but It would seem to
me that being recognized for how much better I am doing today
than yesterday would be much more inspirational and make me
think about how to do better. We could change a "C" from meaning
average to meaning "the same", a "B" would mean better than
before, and an A would mean even more improvement, a "D" would
raise eyebrows as to why they are not as good as before. Is it a
problem with the student or the environment? Did I not teach
this subject as well as I could have? etc. Improvement based
grading would give us a great barometer for our schools and our
teachers, those students who may be ahead of the curve would
have reason to excel, those that were perhaps behind would still
remain confident in their d