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Grade Inflation is a Symptom, Not the Disease (Part 9): Cultivating Assessment Literacy
Getting students curious and excited to pursue intellectual work they find meaningful. This is what any conscientious educator wants. But our institutions are structured in ways that largely impede such engagement with learning. This is the Core Conundrum of my blog. To make productive sense of this big C Conundrum, I have been breaking it… Continue reading
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Assessment is a Wicked Problem (Part 2): Cultivating Authority
My first post in this series on assessment distinguished wicked problems from tame problems, which are characterized by codified rules, recognizable patterns, and clearly defined structures for obtaining and interpreting feedback. The clarity of tame problems makes assessing responses fairly straightforward; we can see whether a response is right or wrong and, if it is… Continue reading
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