do grades motivate or limit students what they can achieve
ENGL 111G
Do grades motivate students or limit what they can achieve? According to Daniel Pink’s article “Less of What We Want” states that; “work consist of whatever the body is OBLIGED to do.” In other words bribing people to do stuff is not a good motivator for them to perform better, on the contrary it turns anything fun into work and people don’t like work. There are several of studies on this article proving how money or prices don’t make people perform better, actually “the rewards narrowed peoples focus”. Regardless of what the article says I believe that grades do motivate students and they do limit what you can achieve. I am not saying I believe Daniel Pink is wrong, I’m saying grades are earned and not a reward therefore yes they motivate students but they can also be a bad motivator. I do believe grades motivate students; grades are a reflection of a student’s knowledge. If you are doing well it will show on your grades, because they are not given they are earned. I don’t believe it is a good motivator because if people focus on the grade they will get rather than on the importance of learning the material then that is not the real intentions of school. Grades are a scale to measure people’s knowledge the motivation should be learning the material well enough in order to do well and get the grade. I also believe that grades limit what you can achieve because, future employers base your qualification for the job based on your grades therefore grades will determine what you will achieve. For instance I honestly did not want to do this assignment my reaction to this assignment was, that the topic it is hard, and I was busy, I don’t like writing and I will skip it. I am doing this assignment because I know I have to do it in order to become a better writer. In other words I am doing it for myself because I enrolled in school and I have committed to it, and the grade will be a reflection of how I am doing and how I can improve. If I do not do well
Do grades motivate students or limit what they can achieve? According to Daniel Pink’s article “Less of What We Want” states that; “work consist of whatever the body is OBLIGED to do.” In other words bribing people to do stuff is not a good motivator for them to perform better, on the contrary it turns anything fun into work and people don’t like work. There are several of studies on this article proving how money or prices don’t make people perform better, actually “the rewards narrowed peoples focus”. Regardless of what the article says I believe that grades do motivate students and they do limit what you can achieve. I am not saying I believe Daniel Pink is wrong, I’m saying grades are earned and not a reward therefore yes they motivate students but they can also be a bad motivator. I do believe grades motivate students; grades are a reflection of a student’s knowledge. If you are doing well it will show on your grades, because they are not given they are earned. I don’t believe it is a good motivator because if people focus on the grade they will get rather than on the importance of learning the material then that is not the real intentions of school. Grades are a scale to measure people’s knowledge the motivation should be learning the material well enough in order to do well and get the grade. I also believe that grades limit what you can achieve because, future employers base your qualification for the job based on your grades therefore grades will determine what you will achieve. For instance I honestly did not want to do this assignment my reaction to this assignment was, that the topic it is hard, and I was busy, I don’t like writing and I will skip it. I am doing this assignment because I know I have to do it in order to become a better writer. In other words I am doing it for myself because I enrolled in school and I have committed to it, and the grade will be a reflection of how I am doing and how I can improve. If I do not do well