Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning But Don't Have To Schneider Jack
Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning But Don't Have To Schneider Jack Amid widespread concern that our approach to testing and grading undermines education, two experts…
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Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning But Don't Have To Schneider Jack
Amid widespread concern that our approach to testing and grading undermines education, two experts explain how schools can use assessment to support, rather than compromise, learning.Anyone who has ever crammed for a test, capitulated to a grade-grubbing student, or fretted over a child's report card knows that the way we assess student learning in American schools is freighted with unintended consequences. As experts agree, our primary assessment technologies--grading, rating, and ranking--don't actually provide an accurate picture of how students are doing in school. But that's not all.
Yet despite widespread dissatisfaction, grades, test scores, and transcripts remain the currency of the realm.In Off the Mark, Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt explain Worse, they distort student and educator behavior in ways that undermine learning and exacerbate inequality.