Grades in the Education System: A Poor Solution but at the Same Time a Necessity

Abstract

This paper aims to provide a judgment for the assessment of the students of the pre-university and university system with grades, will be discussed for the grade as a "bad" necessarity for assessing students.Grades are the results of the previous achievements achieved by students, are called evidence of a student knowledge and are an informative tool for parents to know their child's achievement.Grades can never be used as a medal for the student behavior nor as a penalty tool against them.Quantitative methods with qualitative approaches are used in the methodology of the paper.A total of 50 students and 10 teachers from the “SkënderLuarasia primary school in Tirana have been interviewed.It has been concluded that in Albania the grades system has not yet come out of fashion and it is seen as an assessment system for student achievements.