Adamson University has always been on the move when it comes to improving the school’s academic performance. Hence, the school administration has done all the possible improvements that they think would withstand the society’s rising standard today by training students the best way possible, and giving them the best service there is. With this they resolve, teacher-student relationship through the TBI evaluation; they also tend to improve the school facilities by raising the miscellaneous fees which the students are already taking advantage off; and they also gave special attention to foreign students, that they may be able to cope up with class discussions. However, there was an improvement that made students raise their voices up to the administration at first. This took the school by storm as this issue is still being talked about now. And this is the issue of the 0 base grading system of the school.
The new grading system of Adamson University has already surpassed UP standards[1] the home of the country’s scholars when the passing mark was raised to 70%. The students felt helpless with this kind of system as everyone was used to the 50% standard. And since it is 0 based, it practically meant that a single zero from any quizzes, projects, seat works, assignments, or term tests can lead to your big-time down fall, and more bad news for lazy students came when it was said that the ‘4’ or incomplete grade has also been removed out from a student’s option. A lot of students was furious about this and lead to numerous protests. Either would it have been loud through shouting outside along San Marcelino, or it may have been the silent protests wherein students and professors wore black t-shirts on washday. Yes, even some professors were not happy about this. If we would notice there are middle aged and old professors among the faculty members, and they were used in following their old grading system, as this was the system they used ever since they started teaching in Adamson. And more importantly, the professors had to use Lap Taps and computers that have software that automatically computes student grades, but usually and more often; this comes to an error, thus ending up giving the wrong grade to students. Because of this, the students had to re compute their grades manually in order to gain the grade which they truly deserved. The teachers tried to file a TRO against the grading system, but unfortunately they have failed.
Perhaps a good solution for this is that, the administration should hold a forum, wherein they would not be biased with their sides like what happened before in the past forum. If they really plan to continue pursuing this zero based system they must give the teachers especially the old professors the benefit of the doubt, by giving them basic computer literacy training. And in the side of the students, perhaps it is about time that we get off our lazy behinds, and start training ourselves for the real world. After all, Adamson did not coerce us to join and study in Adamson, we choose to be part of the institution, and therefore we must respect and follow. In my educated opinion, it really now depends on the professor how will they pass their students. Because from experience this Academic year, the professors are making ways on how to pass their students, so now the decision lies within the student if they plan to grab the opportunity or not. That is why this grading system is also known as “Performance Based”.
1 University of the Philippines Grading System, 2010, Joanna Macris Armendez, THE TOUGH COOKIE [online] Available at: http://joannamacris.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/university-of-the-philippines-grading-system/ [14 March 2010]
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