Grades Can Hinder Learning. What Should Professors Use Instead?

Grades Can Hinder Learning. What Should Professors Use Instead?

H/T Deborah Gambs for pointing out this new article in the Chronicle.

“Let’s take a moment and ask. Why grade? To give students feedback, a professor might say. To measure learning. To motivate. Here’s the problem: Decades of research undercuts these assumptions.”

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