No Percentages in Physical Education
When looking at assessments in school, students are constantly worried about their percentages and grades and how they are being marked. This is no exception in physical education as students are constantly asking what they are getting and how they can be improved. In the new curriculum coming out for physical education, one of the changes might be to change the grades in physical education so that there is still letter grades but no percentages attached to the grades.This is a little confusing because teachers will still have percentages of the students when calculating their letter grades. So basically students will receive only letter grades on their report card, but if they care about their marks and want to know where they stand in the spectrum of that letter grade they can just go and ask their teacher. It does not make sense to do this in one subject only and I do not believe that students will be very happy about it. I understand the fact of trying to make school less about grades to make students more intrinsically motivated to do well instead of being extrinsically motivated to get a better percentage. This being said the world we live in you students and young adults is all about grades, therefore students will be extrinsically motivated. To be able to get into a university students need to have extremely high grades to be competitive to get into the programs that they want and the scholarships that they might need. I do not believe that removing percentages in physical education will change anything with the grading because as noted before teachers are still going to have their percentages.