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Can We Improve Grading by Collaborating with Students?

Faculty Focus

Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens. What is wrong with grades?

Grades 122
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Can We Improve Grading by Collaborating with Students?

Faculty Focus

Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens. What is wrong with grades?

Grades 98