Hmmm... I don't perceive the posting of grades as
treating the students as less than adults.
I
update the grade posting after an exam. For instance, they had
an exam on Wednesday, and their grades will be posted this
afternoon. This means the students don't have to wait until Monday's
class to learn their exam grade. This seems to alleviate some of their
anxiety. And it eliminates the student being shocked in class and not
being able to hear anything for the rest of the class period.
When I update the grade posting, all written assignment grades are also posted. I encourage students to look at those and make sure that I haven't made a mistake in recording their grade.
Also,
I don't calculate their current course grade for them; I just tell them their
grades on the assignments that they have already gotten back or will soon get
back.
And I
think there's value in students being able to see the performance of others in
the class. The student who fails a test may complain less about how unfair
the test was when they see that there were many who scored well on it... and
that those were the students who turned in all of their
assignments.
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Sue
Frantz Highline Community
College
Psychology
Des Moines, WA
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I don't post grades at all. Besides all the ethical problems it seems to create, I think it encourages an attitude of passive dependence on the instructor.
When students ask me to post grades, or to tell them how they are doing, I ask them to look at their quizzes, exam grades and assignments. They can answer this question without my input.
Nancy Melucci
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