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COVID-19 has challenged teachers’ abilities to provide students with chances to learn and to report on student learning.
Grades may be a crude incentive for students aspiring to the highest performance, but they have little influence on those who take satisfaction from the learning process.
Grades don’t actually measure learning, and they can increase students’ stress and decrease their motivation. A college professor explains an alternative to grading students’ work.
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Professor of Education, Brock University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Te Wānanga Toi Tangata Division of Education; Professor of Measurement, Assessment and Evaluation, University of Waikato
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Professor, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, York University, Canada
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Professor of English, University of Richmond
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Associate Professor (Assessment and Digital Learning), Deakin University
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Alfred Deakin Professor and Director, Centre for Research on Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Waikato
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Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
