TeachThought12 Alternatives To Letter Grades In Education - 1 views
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John Evans on 01 Dec 12"Few artifacts of formal learning are as iconic as the letter grade. What can I do to get an A? She's a C student. He's always gotten As and Bs in all of his classes. Then we turn the letters into numbers-letter grades become averages of letter grades, which, when calculated, determined whether or not a learner qualifies to play sports, get into college, or thinks of him or herself as "smart.""