Effort Grade System
The new addition of the effort and attitude eagles system has been a very one-sided beneficial system; the main group benefiting from this new system is :
the Girls
The reason for this is because of the way which girls and boys are and have always been treated.
Studies show that the boy has always been told not to act like a “teenage boy” and the girl is told not to be influenced or put off track by the boy.
Therefore, since girls are always thought of paying more attention in class it is no surprise that the effort and “attitude” system mirrors this as if the percentages are compared on average girls have more than twice the number of eagles, in class 2 and 3 there are only 2 boys with 3 eagles but there are 22 girls with 3 eagles and the rest of the girls have 2 or at least 1, only 8 girls in passable and 26 boys.
As can be seen there is already one major issue of biased grading which is due to the way of which teachers think or grade both sexes, this results in the first issue of this inaccurate system in which girls are given better grades for the same amount of “effort” or “attitude”.
Another issue is the way in which the system is based on, meaning the fact that the whole system is based on individuals grading you on how much “effort” or “attitude” you put in. The main issue on this is that it is a complete biased and inaccurate system, your basing your system on the judgement of individuals which simply cannot tell how much “effort” or “attitude” you put in, it is a complete flaw and makes little sense as it is founded upon biased opinion which leads to inaccurate results. The main issue is that teachers cannot tell how you feel or how much effort it takes you to do something, it simply is not possible, the teachers aren’t mind readers and give students grades according to how the feel about the person, and not about the supposed effort, as yet again they cannot read minds, they are only humans.
If the system is to be based on the opinion of teachers which is a major factor in our study, and it is ineffective at grading students it must clearly be changed or adapted into a more efficient and accurate system by implementing non-biased grading which is done according to a clear criteria and clear evidence for why the student has been putting effort and shows a positive attitude, and vice versa for the lack of effort and attitude. Although there is already a “clear criteria” most if not all of the criteria in 4/4 is unobtainable, therefore the teachers should have to give “specific” examples of why the student or girl deserves the mark instead.
Also as the effort grades don’t go to your universities, you are putting in more effort to get better effort grades, which could take away from your average.
by Constantin Cartalis
