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A professor who tells his students that “grades are the death of composition.” Another said: “Grades create a facade of coherence.”
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Dana Huff on 28 Jan 09Interesting. I agree. I wish that we didn't have to grade student writing and could just give written or oral feedback. I love the "facade of coherence" comment.
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politically impossible
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grades were squelching intellectual curiosity.
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growing use of e-portfolios
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most professors and students are much more likely to complain about grading than to praise its accuracy or value.
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the elimination of grades — if they are replaced with narrative evaluations, rubrics, and clear learning goals — results in more accountability and better ways for a colleges to measure the success not only of students but of its academic programs.
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the idea of consistent and clear grading just doesn’t reflect the mobility of students
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ending grades can mean much more work for both students and faculty members.
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When faculty members are providing written, detailed analyses of multiple course objectives and are also — for majors — relating performance to larger goals for the major, so much more is taking place she said, than in a letter grade.
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the training that colleges provide to professors before they start producing narrative evaluations, and officials of the no-grades colleges all said that training was extensive, and that faculty members needed mentors as they started out.
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they end up favoring the evaluation system