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Off the Mark How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To)

Name: Off the Mark
Author: Jack Schneider

Auteur: Jack Schneider

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Jack Schneider Ethan L. Hutt

Engels
Hardcover
9780674248410
08 augustus 2023
296 pagina's

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Schooling has become less about learning and more about the scramble for good grades, high test scores, and spotless transcripts. No one is happy about this, least of all students. But what can be done? Off the Mark explains how we got into this predicament, why our reforms haven’t worked, and how we can reorient our system to advance learning.

Amid widespread concern that our approach to testing and grading undermines education, two experts explain how schools can use assessment to support, rather than compromise, learning.

Anyone who has ever crammed for a test, capitulated to a grade-grubbing student, or fretted over a child’s report card knows that the way we assess student learning in American schools is freighted with unintended consequences. But that’s not all. As experts agree, our primary assessment technologies—grading, rating, and ranking—don’t actually provide an accurate picture of how students are doing in school. Worse, they distort student and educator behavior in ways that undermine learning and exacerbate inequality. Yet despite widespread dissatisfaction, grades, test scores, and transcripts remain the currency of the realm.

In Off the Mark, Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt explain how we got into this predicament, why we remain beholden to our outmoded forms of assessment, and what we can do to change course. As they make clear, most current attempts at reform won’t solve the complex problems we face. Instead, Schneider and Hutt offer a range of practical reforms, like embracing multiple measures of performance and making the so-called permanent record “overwritable.” As they explain, we can remake our approach in ways that better advance the three different purposes that assessment currently serves: motivating students to learn, communicating meaningful information about what young people know and can do, and synchronizing an otherwise fragmented educational system. Written in an accessible style for a broad audience, Off the Mark is a guide for everyone who wants to ensure that assessment serves the fundamental goal of education—helping students learn.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 08 augustus 2023
Aantal pagina's: 296
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Hoofdauteur: Jack Schneider
Tweede Auteur: Ethan L. Hutt
Hoofduitgeverij: Harvard University Press

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Product breedte: 140 mm
Product lengte: 210 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 28 mm
Verpakking lengte: 210 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 484 g

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