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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2/ what does it even MEAN to grade someone holistically? Tests and classes are about certain things. Does "kindness" factor into a calculus grade? How would one even know a student's kindness? Finally >>>
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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/ I practiced "deskilling" a lot when I ran a company, and then again later when I hired farm hands. ...but what's good for the goose is good for the gander. I ALSO deskill my own tasks!https://twitter.com/SumErgoMonstro/status/1340000160366116865 …
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