https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-its-finally-time-to-put-pandemic-excuses-behind-us-and-hold-students-to-higher-standards/ Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:24:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-its-finally-time-to-put-pandemic-excuses-behind-us-and-hold-students-to-higher-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-78691 Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:06:43 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=103515#comment-78691 Higher standards requires us to stop using traditional grading practices. It’s simply dishonest and unfair to include a student’s behavior in a grade–to allow a student with weak understanding to get a higher, inflated grade. Awarding “participation” points (for contributing to discussions and being prepared for class) or giving students points for submitting HW (regardless of who does it or what help they got) allows students to avoid actual learning. Hold students to higher standards by more accurate and equitable grading! https://crescendoedgroup.org/blog/equitable-grading/can-we-trust-the-transcript/

]]> https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-its-finally-time-to-put-pandemic-excuses-behind-us-and-hold-students-to-higher-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-78684 Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:58:01 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=103515#comment-78684 Let us be very clear – so-called “pandemic grading” wasn’t “softer grading; it was and remains better grading because it removed some of the worst aspects of traditional grading- mixing achievement and behaviour, zeros, percentages and averaging.

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