In my continued grading research, most systems I come across do seem to be a step in the right direction, but don’t quite go far enough to address the problem of grades taking away focus from learning. Contract grading is one of the systems that misses the mark because it tends to actually bring all the focus to a grade.
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Punished By Rewards & Advantages To The Single-Point Rubric
As if researching how to eliminate grading and reduce assessment couldn’t get much better, I’ve now got something else. Alfie Kohn’s 1993 masterpiece really ought to be required reading for every educator. Coming up on its 30 year anniversary, the author at the time reviewed studies dating just as far back to the 1960s. This post is gonna focus on self-assessments. When it comes to students self-assessing, evidence suggests that the more students think about HOW WELL they’re doing (vs. WHAT they’re doing), they do it poorly.
That’s crazy-unintuitive, right?!
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