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  1. Mar 2018
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    Ontario high-school students to negotiate final grades in experiment
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    1. taylrach810 18 Mar 2018
      During the mark-negotiation process, the teacher and student should not be far apart, Mr. Kardash explained, because the feedback will have been thorough. "The mark will still be there at the end. But they're so ingrained and driven by the mark that they've lost sight of the learning. I get it, I completely understand it,"

      This is completely true usually when I see a mark I do not think is good enough I tend to beat myself down and think that I didn't try hard enough, even though I might've put so many weeks or hours into a project or studying. I think that constructive criticism would be better for me in some ways because it wouldn't have me comparing my marks to someone else in the class or to the class average thinking that I need to be higher then it.

    2. taylrach810 18 Mar 2018
      Grade 9 students in four courses – academic English, academic French, applied math and open business – will have a digital portfolio this fall where they will receive constant feedback from teachers over the course of the semester and apply that by making revisions to an assignment or subsequent papers.

      Concept of how their plan will play out.

    3. taylrach810 17 Mar 2018
      High schools are constrained by the need to ensure students have marks for postsecondary applications.

      The boards could come up with a system that still gives us that number mark that we require but that also allows for us to have more detailed evaluations.

    4. taylrach810 17 Mar 2018
      "They don't remember anything after the test. They learn what they need to learn, and then as soon as they've given it back to the teacher and they're given a mark, they forget about it. It's not really learning."

      I do agree with this as there has been no good way of teaching us in a way that we retain it, the one way that I, personally think works for me is when teachers have Kahoots or similar games made up for us to test our knowledge prior to the test. I find that playing a game makes me for some reason remember the information.

    5. taylrach810 17 Mar 2018
      Many parents and children are heavily focused on the traditional grading system to ensure entry into competitive postsecondary programs, and a new feedback concept didn't sit well. But educators have grown increasingly frustrated that too many students leave high school not fully prepared for university or college, even though they may be labelled as top performers.

      If they think that students are leaving not fully prepared for university or college maybe the curriculum needs to be looked at compared to the many program requirements for secondary education.

    6. taylrach810 17 Mar 2018
      Grade 9 students sit down with teachers to negotiate a final mark for the course, but only after reviewing their learning and performance based on the feedback they received.

      I believe that this is a great idea as it kind of allows an inside look for the teachers if there is a certain reason a student did poorly on a certain assignment or presentation. This meeting would allow the students to contribute what they believe they deserve especially in the instance of group work where most of the time someone always does more than the others do, in the meeting the student would be able to privately tell the teacher about issues like this and hopefully get the correct mark out of it.

    7. taylrach810 17 Mar 2018
      Ontario high schoolers will be invited to negotiate their final grades this year as part of an experiment that is challenging the preoccupation with marks and how teachers and students think about academic achievement.

      Overview of the topic this article is based on.

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