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My first year teaching was in a private school where the
only grades we gave was PASS or FAIL. Amazingly, most
students did very well when we took the grade pressure off
of them. ....
I often have thought that pass/fail is the way to go. I do
think students would then focus better on learning. I
have often thought about a check list. A student does
receive credit until all topic are checked. A lot of students
(some who want to be engineers) avoid my class because
it might hurt their GPA. It seems that the GPA is
increasing in importance. How important is a GPA? I
don't think things will change much and I will continue
to try to convince student the importance of the class is
not the grade, but the knowledge - wish me luck.