College GPA’S Impact on Students’ Learning Initiative—Taking X University as an Example

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10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_171How to use a DOI?

Keywords

GPA; Higher Education; Students’ Initiative; student’s development

Abstract

Grade Point Average (GPA) was introduced in Chinese Universities as a method to facilitate students to learn and create a more ideal environment for competition to select elites. However, it is causing troubles gradually. In China, GPA system improve the learning outcome dramatically, but also incur the grade inflation and a dropping of free explorations. Learning under the shadow of GPA and the following cruel competitions, students’ learning initiative is shrinking due to the lack of room to make mistakes as well as the high pressure of chasing grade-maximization. The system which aimed to improve the operating efficiency now leads to individual flattening, utilitarianism prevailing as well as the lacking of self-meaning. This research will focus on students’ real experience to see how GPA impacts them in mental and behavior aspects and try to analysis the interaction between the GPA evaluation system and the atmosphere or culture it created. In the end, it will make suggestion on how to improve the system based on students’ real need, not experts’ allegations.

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AU  - Xueyu Zhang
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/07/11
TI  - College GPA’S Impact on Students’ Learning Initiative—Taking X University as an Example
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1325
EP  - 1333
SN  - 2352-5398
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