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How do you know who's doing well then? Seems like eliminating quantitative measurements will only make things worse.
by xxpor 3y ago
How do you know who's doing well then? Seems like eliminating quantitative measurements will only make things worse.
- tapatio 3y agoA kid takes a French class. Can he speak French afterwards? Can he read/write in French? I guess that's how you'd know if he learned it. Is that a test? I guess so but I'd like to see grades take a backseat to actual learning. Maybe that's a bad position to take.
- threatofrain 3y agoBut now nobody can say whether any curriculum is better.
- pessimizer 3y agoLanguage curricula are not any more effective (i.e. pretty terrible) at teaching language than they ever have been. So since these data-driven improvements haven't shown up yet, we shouldn't be worried about risking them.
- xxpor 3y agoI think we have the same idea: stupid grades that don't measure actual results are bad. Not that I'm salty, but I always had poor grades because I rarely if ever did homework. But I aced the tests, so why bother?
- threatofrain 3y agoHow about eliminate grades but only have standardized exams? Standardized exams are less susceptible to the grade fiddling.
- vuln 3y agoThen they spend the whole year “studying” for the standardized test and learn nothing. That’s how it currently is and I don’t see that changing. Standardized exam scores are utilized for funding.