Some more #ungrading thoughts now that I'm done: My institution is not one where ungrading--or other alternate approaches to grading--is common. In fact, many, many people at my institution associate lower grades with rigor, believe that grades are both essential and beneficial,
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Learning, at its core, is about making mistakes. Grades incentivize learning without mistakes, which causes stress, creates students that focus on passing instead of learning, and cheating becomes rampant.
Grades corrupt learning to a point that it is no longer about learning.
Dec 14, 2019 · 10:07 PM UTC
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