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Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System? (Encore Episode)

From This Week with EdSurge · Hosted by Ira Apfel

October 31, 2023·50:14

Episode summary

In this episode of This Week with EdSurge: More educators are wondering whether the grading system hinders many students rather than helps them learn. For this week’s podcast, we’re rebroadcasting an episode from this summer diving into alternative methods of marking papers in ways that encourage students to continually revise their work rather than quibble over which letter grade they deserve.

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Original publisher description

More educators are wondering whether the grading system hinders many students rather than helps them learn. For this week’s podcast, we’re rebroadcasting an episode from this summer diving into alternative methods of marking papers in ways that encourage students to continually revise their work rather than quibble over which letter grade they deserve.