Today academic grading is nourishing debate concerning its affects on college students. In 2011, two articles addressing the debate of the considerations of grading. John Immerwahr, in his article “The Case for Motivational Grading,” argues that the purpose of grading to encourage student behaviors to improve theirs learning (335). Alfie Kohn, on the other hand, in his article “The Case Against Grades” suggests that grading is not the way to assess students learning. John Immerwahr and Alfie Kohn both present the keys, and continue the debate. John Immerwahr’s article “The Case for Motivational Grading” agrees with much of what Close says about questioning the grading practices. Despite that, Immerwahr argues that grading is more than providing