Consequences:
The consequences of tracking students are endless. For one, students who are placed in a higher ability group are granted access to a higher education than those who are placed in a lower learning level. This thus leads to a low self-efficacy level for kids who are not placed in higher group levels because they see that their teachers do not believe in them. This is setting these kids up for failure as well as possibly a low economic placement later in life.
Student Evaluation:
Students should be able to evaluate the classroom just as much as the teacher and principal should. School is a place where students go 6 hours of the day and a lot of the time, more than that. It is a place they should feel comfortable going and being and happy to be there, this is something that the teachers do not often accomplish. Student evaluations of the way they are taught, and the environment they are taught in could greatly effect the outcomes in the grading system. Rather than guessing if the student like the tracking system, they could vote on it themselves.
Alternatives:
An alternative to Tracking students would be Grouping. Tracking students doesn't provide a lot of room to move around from different levels of learning, however grouping does. Grouping allows students to be in different group levels according to different subjects of study. For instance, a student could be in the highest level of grouping for algebra, but the lowest level for writing. Once the lesson is done, the student then is able to move into a different group for the next part of the class such as reading and geometry.
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