The Trouble with Grades
Derek Bruff,
Agile Learning,
Mar 01, 2022
In this post Derek Bruff offers his thoughts on the first few chapters Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan Blum. It's another of those books you have to pay for, so I haven't read it, but you can find a short review here. There's a sense in which to question grading is also to question what we're trying to do in education: " Is our principle task as educators ranking our students for some outside observer? Or, as the authors of the book argue, is our principle task educating our students, that is, helping them learn and grow?" Bruff also recommends Bonnie Stachowiak's recent interview with Josh Eyler on her Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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