You make it more important to be eventually right than initially right. Allow tests to be continuously regraded as the things students get wrong are corrected.

You make it more important to be eventually right than initially right. Allow tests to be continuously regraded as the things students get wrong are corrected. Automation would go a long way towards making that more feasible (i.e. easier for a multiple choice test than a written one). But the emphasis on being right initially as the only thing that matters is unhealthy, and certainly in part what leads to the majority of people doubling down on confirmation bias rather than admitting being wrong and learning/incorporating the knowledge for the future. Yes, there are practical issues with improving the system. But I've had a few select teachers that had that policy in some form years ago, and it was often the best teachers that did. We'd benefit from a widespread adoption of similar and it might lower the inventive for trying to cheat to be right the first time, as to the kids being brought up in these systems and reflecting these systems, that's the only thing that matters.