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Teaching with Technology Week 5  The effect of effort has a direct correlation on the outcome of the performance, not only in the education system, but also in the working world. While there are times that it seems the people that who cut corners and are not the most honest get away with the most, in reflection, they put in a lot of effort, all though it is not always the most scrupulous of effort, it is effort nonetheless. As a student who, until my honors and AP classes in high school and then college, was able to catch on to most concepts effortlessly, I often could not understand why others were not able to understand the lessons. As I have gotten older and been challenged more in my education, the necessity of the effort to accomplish my goals has been much more visible. I now can sympathize to the student that just cannot grasp a subject if they do not put forth amazing effort.

There was discussion of fairness in the assessment of student learning and I have been pondering the two concepts, fairness and effort, in correlation to one another. As a teacher, we must apply as standard of fairness to how we evaluate our students, but I catch myself judging the more advanced students work with much more attention to detail. The question then arises, am I more fairly assessing them based on their abilities or is it taking into account the effort they put into it when judging their performance? Or is it a combination of this and many other subjective elements applied how appealing something is for us to hear or look at?