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Not sure how you got from "not grading" to "not knowing numbers". Do you care more about "got 15s faster between start and end of year" or "grade C at start an
by detaro 5y ago
Not sure how you got from "not grading" to "not knowing numbers". Do you care more about "got 15s faster between start and end of year" or "grade C at start and end"? Not grading != no feedback. The source article explicitly makes that distinction.
- ALittleLight 5y agoThe author doesn't exactly describe her method but says "No, I answered, because I really won’t have put a grade on it." Which makes me think she's not putting numbers on things - she has, in other words, thrown out her stopwatch. Getting faster or writing better papers are both good results. Importantly, you can only know them if you are taking objective measurements. If you aren't, you will struggle to know if your methods and changes are improvements or degradations. Fittingly, the article suffers from the same relativistic malaise the author inflicts on her students. The article doesn't explain objectively why not grading is good. Instead, it's subjective feelings, preferences, and beliefs. Maybe this is a good change, I doubt it, but we haven't seen any evidence in this article.