Abstract

Academic achievement has too often been a metric by which students define their self-worth. For some students, this focus manifests itself through perfectionism, attaining high grades, and overvaluing extrinsic learning rewards. Students who consider their self-worth to be contingent upon their academic performance often suffer from withdrawal, stress, depression, and anxiety. The external and internal pressures placed upon students regarding academic achievement can be devastating. Recent criticisms of grading, its efficacy, and inconsistencies might lead postsecondary educators to reconsider how they assess and communicate competency to their students. Christian institutions of higher education in particular have unique opportunities to speak to students’ perceptions of their identity in ways that reframe the impacts and effects of grading on personal well-being and sense of self-worth. This article serves as a call to action for Christian universities to instill a more robust understanding of Christian identity and the imago Dei concerning how and where students find their self-worth—in whom they find their worth, rather than in what.

摘要

学业成绩常常成为学生定义自我价值的衡量标准。对于一些学生来说，这种关注体现在完美主义、获得高分和高估外在学习奖励上。认为自己的自我价值取决于学业成绩的学生经常遭受退缩、压力、抑郁和焦虑的困扰。在学业成就方面对学生施加的外部和内部压力可能是毁灭性的。最近对评分、其有效性和不一致的批评可能会导致中学后教育工作者重新考虑他们如何评估能力并将其传达给学生。尤其是基督教高等教育机构，有独特的机会以重新构建评分对个人幸福感和自我价值感的影响和影响的方式来表达学生对其身份的看法。本文呼吁基督教大学采取行动，灌输对基督徒身份和imago Dei关于学生如何以及在何处找到自己的价值——他们在谁身上找到了自己的价值，而不是在什么。