text: educators: is there a specific purpose for asking students to forecast their grade on an assignment? something i was reading in a book on social research reminded me that in high school and middle school, teachers would often ask students to indicate what grade they thought they deserved on an assignment before handing it in.  so many of my teachers did this that i now wonder if there is some view in educational psychology or theory which advocates doing this; and if so, exactly what is the goal of it?    i remember that i uniformly put down "b", no matter what grade i thought i deserved; i thought that answering "a" would be showing off, and answering anything less would be jeopardizing my grade.  so i think i was defeating the purpose of the exercise, whatever it may have been. i dont know exactly im not a teacher but my gym teacher does it a lot.  it probably tells them how well you think youre doing, usually based off of the effort you know you put into it.