Should Schools Ditch Letter Grades?

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Across
  1. 3. If a student merely receives a “Pass” on a test or paper, they can’t know if they fully absorbed the ___ or just squeaked by.
  2. 4. Grades should be replaced by a more ___ evaluation of the student as a whole.
  3. 5. ___ motivation = you work at things with personal meaning
  4. 7. I knew I would be able to pass by just doing the ___ minimum.
  5. 10. Grades are useful only for calculating a student’s grade point ___, or GPA.
  6. 12. ___ motivation = you work for a reward
  7. 13. Grades showcase our strengths and help us ___ our weaknesses so that we can grow.
  8. 14. It’s a fact of life that we’ll be ___ throughout our lives, so we might as well learn how to handle it now.
Down
  1. 1. Grades may impede students’ ___ to try out new subjects without the fear of negatively affecting their GPA.
  2. 2. Some schools have gone pass/fail during the Covid-19 ___.
  3. 6. How can you tell which student has the greater capacity to make an ___ on the world?
  4. 8. Grades prepare students for ___ life.
  5. 9. Grades force us to take our learning ___.
  6. 11. A more ___ system would be pass/fail combined with written evaluations that take into account each student’s circumstances and reward effort as much as achievement.
  7. 14. Grades are the most ___ way of letting students know where they struggle and where they shine.