bettsfic: randaness:owlsofstarlight: My best/favorite teacher would literally take off the points
bettsfic: randaness: owlsofstarlight: My best/favorite teacher would literally take off the points for a question that the majority of the class got wrong from the total on the test and then hold a lesson on the topic because she realized if 90% of her students didn’t know the answer then she hadn’t done a good job teaching it. I hate it when teachers take pride in having a large percentage of students get bad grades in their classes. It just means that students aren’t learning from you you know, i have a science degree in psychology, which basically means you spend 4 years learning how to build experiments. then i became a teacher, and i realized with horror that grading is always an in accurate measurement of a student’s learning. if a classroom were set up like a social science experiment, the students taking a test would not be what’s being measured. the student’s grades are a measurement of the quality of the teacher. where things are really broken is that the teacher is both the variable being measured and the assessor, which, in social science, is deeply unethical. then, i took a very close look at the requirements of the class i was teaching, to figure out if i really needed to assign letter grades, and it said something to the effect of “yes, you must assign letter grades because it makes students work harder.” and that’s when i realized: grades are merely a tool of conformity and obedience. an ideal educational structure would not have grading metrics at all, but classrooms small enough to offer holistic feedback and self-guided/collaborative learning. -- source link
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