I'm not a teacher and have never been one, but the idea of holistic grading has always struck me as insane...for two reasons * the pragmatic one, discussed here * the intellectual or ideological one: it is conceptually & morally simple to grade "math skill as per test", but >>>https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1339995425034649600 …
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3/ One thing I realized in my late 20s and early 30s when doing projects in the workshop was that I often was highly ineffective when I tried to interleave two or more stages of a project, e.g. designing a shelf + generating a cut list + cutting it each is a distinct activity
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4/ I had great success by "deskilling" my projects: completing each step in a manner that made the next step simple enough that it became just instruction following. [ this is a large part of the input to the homesteading book, btw - me doing this for 7 yrs and saving notes! ]
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5/ So, anyway, I suggest that grading should be deskilled. Test design and teaching should have taken care of most of the hard work, and grading is now a simple exercise in adding numbers (or letting the spreadsheet do it for you!)
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I taught briefly, in a brand new class (ie no pre-existing rubric to work from). I quickly noticed that ad hoc grading systems suck, and that I was biased. Also, by the end of the semester in a small class, I could ID an author by his writing about 85% of the time, even if “anon”
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I think he just means making the numerical grade correspond to "how well do I think this student knows calculus" rather than "how many right answers they got on the test". I think it is a bad idea because it is hard to scale and easy to fool yourself.
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Realistically what it means is that you've been given a class with an absurd ability gap (hooray for inclusion and detracking). You've got a state test with a fixed curricula to teach, so you can't slow it down for the less able, but there's no way in hell they'd honestly pass.
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If you both fail the children literally (by not having sufficiently increased their knowledge) as well as on their report card, people will complain. If you give them a 'holistically' determined passing grade, nobody complains and you don't get in trouble.
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I think it means something about tracing the fundamental interconnectedness of all things to a nice Carribbean resort that you then bill to your employer.
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