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Off the mark : how grades, ratings, & rankings undermine learning (but don't have to) / Jack Schneider and Ethan L. Hutt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ♭2023Description: 281 sidorContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674248410
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.272 23/swe
Other classification:
  • Eaaa
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Contents:
I. Grading, rating, ranking : undermining learning. How grades fail ; This Is a test ; Your permanent record -- II. A world of scores : how we got here and why we're stuck. Tools of necessity ; The culture of assessment -- III. It's a small world after all ; Homegrown experiments ; Sustaining learning.
Summary: "Today's regimes of testing and grading satisfy only the politicians who forced them on America's schools. Yet discarding assessment also serves students poorly. Off the Mark proposes an alternative, replacing motivation-killing tests and grading systems with well-designed assessment that accurately captures learning and fosters students' potential"-- Provided by publisher
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I. Grading, rating, ranking : undermining learning. How grades fail ; This Is a test ; Your permanent record -- II. A world of scores : how we got here and why we're stuck. Tools of necessity ; The culture of assessment -- III. It's a small world after all ; Homegrown experiments ; Sustaining learning.

"Today's regimes of testing and grading satisfy only the politicians who forced them on America's schools. Yet discarding assessment also serves students poorly. Off the Mark proposes an alternative, replacing motivation-killing tests and grading systems with well-designed assessment that accurately captures learning and fosters students' potential"-- Provided by publisher

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