Something that's been brought home to me by my 8yo doing virtual school is the absolute pointlessness of test grades: a thread.
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It ought to be intuitive that a wrong answer means more explanation is needed. Instead, we rely on giving a numerical mark, which not only puts the onus of correcting any mistakes on the student, but disincentivizes that correction, b/c the right answer no longer counts.
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I accepted this as a student because nobody ever suggested an alternative, but as a parent now, whenever I sit down to work with my kid, it just feels totally ass-backwards that finalising a grade is prioritised over fixing any deficiencies that grade revealed. Why?
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The further my kid progresses through the education system, the greater the disconnect I feel with the idea that I'm meant to support it uncritically, and the more I feel that teenage!me, who ended school *furious* with how the secondary system worked, was correct.
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All this is a way of saying: as a millennial who lived through the massive dissonant shift between What School Was Meant To Prepare You For vs How Employment Works Now, my baseline faith that a specific mode of schooling is Vital To My Child's Future is, uh, nil.
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In our school district, kids have the option to retake tests (for a max grade of 80). If they want to retake, typically the teacher requires them to do a study guide or to correct the questions they got wrong and submit it before they can retake.
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Some people think "well this is just teaching them to be lazy and not study" and/or "you don't get do-overs in the REAL WORLD" but like...this isn't an office, this is a LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
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I started giving my students the redo option during the pandemic, and it's going so well that I'm going to keep it in the future for the reasons you say. I'm also keeping the one week of no penalty late work.
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