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GRADING SYSTEMS AND THE

GRADING
SYSTEM OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION
 INTRODUCTION
Assessment of student performance is essentially knowing
how the student is progressing in a course(and incidentally,
how a Teacher is also performing with the respect of teaching
process)
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The first step in assessment is, of course testing (either by some pencil paper
objective test or by some performance based testing procedure) followed by decision
to grade the performance pf the student. Grading, therefore, is the next step after
testing. Over the course of several years, grading system had been evolved in different
schools system all over the world. In American system, for instance, grades are
express in terms of letters. A, B, B+, B-, C, C-, D or what is referred to as a seven
point system. In Philippines colleges and universities, the letters are replaced by
numerical values 1, 1.25, 1.50, 1.75, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, and 4.0 or an eight-point
system. In basic education, grades are expressed as percentages(of
accomplishments) such as 80% or 75%.
 With the implementation of the K to 12
basic Educational curriculum, however,
students performance is expressed in terms
of proficiency. Regardless of grading system
adapted, it is clear that there appears to be
a need to convert raw score values into
corresponding standard grading system
 NORM REFERENCED-
GRADING
The most commonly used grading system falls under the category of norm-referenced grading
refers to a grading system where a student’s grade is placed in relation to the
performance of a group. Thus, in this system, a grade of 80% of the class (or group). At the
first glance, there’s appears to be no problem with this type of grading system as it simply
describes the performance of a student with reference to a particular group of learners.
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The following example shows some of the difficulties associated with
norm-referenced grading:

Example: Consider the following two sets of scores in an English I class for
two sections of ten students each;

A = (30, 40, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85)
B = ( 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 90, 95, 100)

In the first class, the student who got a raw score of 75 would get a
grade of 80% while in the second class, the same grade of 80% would
correspond to a raw of 90. Indeed, if the test used for the two classes
are the same, it would be a rather “unfair” system of grading. A wise
student would opt to enroll in class A since it is easier to get higher
grades in that class than in the other class (class B)