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Measurement has become a disease in child education. Truly. Even within the diminishing time set aside for PE, you see kids running laps because it's something that can be timed. Free play lacks the quantifiableshttps://twitter.com/mitrebox/status/1122884090322214913 …
If you have a child in school, I invite you to look at their materials -- the worksheets, rubrics, tests (yes, notice that everything tangible is evaluation) -- and try to notice every missed opportunity for nuance, challenge, or self-agency that would've cut against gradeability
I’m sure a lot of this is driven by school administrators and bureaucracy, but parents are to blame too. Our kids’ elementary school has to work hard to de-emphasize report card results for the parents.
A lot of schools now use cloud-based platforms that allow parents to see numerical grades for individual assignments in real time, sometimes before the children even know their own scores. The parent-child relationship is increasingly mediated by de-contextualized numbers
"Accountability" in education often plays out as finding any metric that can be measured and shown to improve over time, even if it is unrelated to real learning, and then focusing on showing continuous improvement on said metric. This is "rigor".
I'm convinced this is why so many Millennials crash & burn in my work (corp office) Academia has them trained for quid pro quo ("this for that") for advancement.
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