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The goals of engagement and insight are well worth students keeping in mind. Linking them to grades, however, sends the very traditional message of the educational system, which works against students developing the kind of self-directed, avid learning that the instructor wants. My advice is to de-emphasize grades even if they have to be given at the end of the course.

""I think most faculty regard grades as a nuisance," he says. But if professors didn't give them, "students probably wouldn't work as much and wouldn't do homework and wouldn't study for exams," he argues."