Why I Don't Grade

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Why I Don’t Grade

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“Assessment tends so much to drive and control teaching. Much of what
we do in the classroom...

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Prior to the late 1700s, performance and feedback systems in Education
were incredibly idios...

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The first “official record” of a grading system was fromYale in 1785.The A-
F system appears to h...

Google Trends shows increased search volume around the term “grades”
over the last 14 years. It also shows an increasingly...

Without much critical examination, teachers accept they have to grade,
students accept they have to be graded, students ar...

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"[Competitive schooling, grades, credentials] seem to me the most
authoritarian ...

Grades have been naturalized in EDU to the point that new teachers don't
feel they can safely explore alternative approach...

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Ranking. Metrics. Norming. Objectivity. Uniformity.Accreditation.
Measurement. Rubric...

We have created increasingly elaborate methods of assessment, all while
failing to recognize that the students themselves ...

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An “objective” system for grading was created so systematized schooling
could scale. And ...

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Why do we attempt so often to resolve this...

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Into this?

“ANGEL helps busy educators manage grades with ﬂexible features that
are easy to use. Automated Agents Save Time.”

Canvas:“Grades can serve as a communication tool between students and
instructors and allow instructors to track the progr...

“Blackboard is a course management platform that allows instructors to
interact with students … from putting up copies of ...

The learning management system and the grade book are red herrings,
symptoms of a much larger beast that has its teeth on ...

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The grade takes the complexity of human interaction within a learning
environment and makes i...

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We’ve built an impenetrable phalanx of clarity, certainty, and defensibility.
There is no space fo...

In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire argues against the banking
model, in which education “becomes an act of deposit...

In place of the banking model, Freire advocates for “problem-posing
education,” in which a classroom or learning environme...

Grades are the biggest thorn in the side of Critical Pedagogy—and the
biggest barrier to realizing its radical potential.

Agency, dialogue, self-actualization, and social justice are not possible in a
hierarchical system that pits teachers agai...

Ultimately, any good assessment strategy demands us to adapt, in the
moment, as we encounter each new group of students.Th...

Authentic feedback (and evaluation) means honoring subjectivity and
requires that we show up as our full selves, both teac...

“Grading tends to undermine the climate for teaching and learning. Once
we start grading their work, students are tempted ...

I would argue grading, by any of our conventional academic metrics,
undermines the work:
• Grades are not good incentive.
...

“Research shows three reliable effects when students are graded:They tend
to think less deeply, avoid taking risks, and lo...

I’ve foregone grades on individual assignments for over 18 years. My goal in
eschewing grades has been to more honestly en...

While I've experimented with many alternatives to traditional assessment, I
have primarily relied on self-assessment. I tu...

“Because I put myself outside of the grading loop, I can focus all my efforts
on feedback and encouragement -- on teaching...

My view of students as complex and deeply committed to their education
is fueled by the thousands of self-reﬂection letter...

OPTE Map of the Internet

“Liking and disliking seem like unpromising topics in an exploration of
assessment.They seem to represent the worst kind o...

There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes.
Heavenly hurt ...

“Deconstructing Digital Literature” by Timothy Merritt

Winter Oppresses 
Shadows the landscape like death 
Tis heavenly when it goes
Haiku by Rachel Blume

"A Certain Slant of Light,Typographically Speaking" by Lans Paciﬁco

“To sacriﬁce a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in
deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot i...

Why I Don't Grade

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