Week 8 Discussion 1 I do not support the use of grading on the curve because it is unfair and provi ...

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Week 8 Discussion 1 I do not support the use of grading on the curve because it is unfair and provides a fierce competition among the students which does not depict their performance. Grading on a curve is a procedure of altering students’ results so that a specific proportion of them gets better or worse results than they ought to based on their performance. This approach can unfairly penalize students who perform well, but not well enough to be at the top of the curve, and it can reward those who perform better than their peers but may still not fully grasp the subject matter (Jephcote et al., 2021). Furthermore, grading on a curve promotes rivalries between students and students stop learning but instead strive to achieve a higher grade than their peers. Rather, I think that the grading system of the class should be an absolute one that depicts how well each student has grasped the content of the course. This way, the students can be evaluated based on their potential and not on the competitiveness with the other students. It encourages a competitive spirit where students are challenged to do their best not against the other students in the class (Howitz et al., 2020). Also, using absolute scale of grading helps the students to know their performance level and thus work on their performance rather than working to beat others.