Off the Mark : How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To) / / Ethan L. Hutt, Jack Schneider.
2023
LB3051 .S3244 2023
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Title
Off the Mark : How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To) / / Ethan L. Hutt, Jack Schneider.
Author
Schneider, Jack, author.
ISBN
9780674294776
Published
Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (240 p.)
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10.4159/9780674294776 doi
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LB3051 .S3244 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.27/2
Summary
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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Hutt, Ethan L., author.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Grading, Rating, Ranking. Undermining Learning
1. How Grades Fail
2. This Is a Test
3. Your Permanent Record
Part II. A World of Scores: How We Got Here and Why We're Stuck
4. Tools of Necessity
5. The Culture of Assessment
Part III: Sustaining Learning. False Starts and Future Prospects
6. It's a Small World after All
7. Homegrown Experiments
8. Sustaining Learning
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Grading, Rating, Ranking. Undermining Learning
1. How Grades Fail
2. This Is a Test
3. Your Permanent Record
Part II. A World of Scores: How We Got Here and Why We're Stuck
4. Tools of Necessity
5. The Culture of Assessment
Part III: Sustaining Learning. False Starts and Future Prospects
6. It's a Small World after All
7. Homegrown Experiments
8. Sustaining Learning
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index