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issue138 Some people believe that competition for high grades motivates students to excel in the classroom. Others believe that such competition seriously limits the quality of real learning.

Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.

competition would not motivate students in primary school students to excel because they do not understand the idea of competition and motivating them this way would create unnecessary pressure for them

competing for high grades is essential for high school students who are inspired to get into top universities

competition for high grades is detrimental to learning at college level as students should learn to collaborate with their peers and solve problems creatively

Whether my own position aligns more closely to the advocates of competition or not depends on the educational levels of the students

Tests and examinations are important instruments for assessment widely adopted in most educational contexts.  The debate remains unresolved as to whether or not competition for good grades from the exams promotes or harms quality of learning.  In my opinion, while such competition is not helpful for children in elementary schools and students in universities, it does provide important motivation for high school students inspired to going to colleges.

In elementary schools, students are too young to fully understand the concept of competition and too much emphasis on academic studies would stifle the development of their creativity.  The elementary schoolchildren just begin to learn the basic rules about interacting with their schoolmates and teachers in the schools and their abilities to understand more complex human relationships are rather limited.  If they are taught to compete for better grades, they may not be able to fully understand what competition means and get confused about the whole process of learning in schools.  In addition, educational researchers believe that in elementary schools, children should spend more time playing and experimenting with different ideas and objects in order to cultivate creativity rather than memorizing and practicing for exams.  Therefore, competition for good grades is not helpful for improving learning quality.

Very different from young children in elementary schools, adult students in colleges and universities do not benefit from competition for high grades for different reasons.  At college level, students need to develop skills and techniques that are important in the real world, where people often collaborate in teams rather than work individually.  To facilitate collaboration and teamwork, students should be encouraged to help one another in their courseworks and group projects instead of competing for high grades.  The overall trend in universities nowadays is that group projects are replacing exams as assessment instruments because college professors have realized that cooperation in team rather than competition for high grades is more important for improving learning.

While competition for grades is detrimental to students in elementary schools and colleges, it is quite useful for motivating high school students to study hard and improve their learning outcome.  With the development of knowledge economy, it has been now widely acknowledged that college education does make a difference in boosting people’s income and quality of life.  With more young people interested in going to colleges  but limited number of places and limited amount of financial aid available in the universities, students have to demonstrate their academic potential through strong performance in their high schools and standardised tests such as SAT and ACT.  Competition for grades within high schools and in national standardised tests can provide the motivation for the students to work harder on their academic studies and increase their chances to get into their dream schools for college education.  This is particularly useful for high school adolescents who have to deal with temptations such as party, sex and drug.

In conclusion, whether competition for grades harms or promotes quality of learning depends on which groups of students we are talking about.  For elementary schoolchildren and college students, competition for grades is not very helpful; but for high school students, they need the extra push from the competition to get into the universities.

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