Experts discuss whether Ontario elementary school report cards are making the grade. Education consultant Damian Cooper, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education instructor John Myers and author Alfie Kohn discuss what report cards are for, how well they do that job and how best to assess how kids are doing.
@JavaBlues
They only care about grades because they don't care about the meaningless work they've been given. So maybe their parents scream at them if they fail or something. The point is if you want an effective democratic education system you dispense with grades, punitive measures and other exercises in totalitarianism. I agree with you that kids want to know their grades when they're being graded. But they don't want to be graded to begin with anymore than you do by say the principal.
paganiniGOGO 1 year ago
@kidwoofwoof
Not True that it's unsupported by evidence. I've been teacher 10 years. That's sixty courses, that's 1500 students. I have not once found a student who wanted to know what their learning skills were. Not one student who said, "How'd I do on team work".
Of those 1500 students, not a single one wanted to know their comments. But probably 1000 asked about thier grades.
Show me the evidence that in grade 12, marks dont' motivate students.
JavaBlues 1 year ago
@JavaBlues Interesting view - albeit one wholly unsupported by evidence, which suggests, in fact the opposite i.e. that grades have the effect of demotivating students (even, in the long run, *successful* students) and that comments (only, without grades) drive positive development. Read (or search youtube for) Carol Dweck.
kidwoofwoof 1 year ago
Stop talking about report cards. Just stop it. Comments are virtually meaningless. The current report card requires six learning skills, and depending on the reporting period, one to three comments. Plus a grade of course. That's eight to ten pieces of information. If I were to spend say, 10 seconds on each, for say 150 students, thats 3 hours twenty minutes to 4 hours ten minutes of wasted time. I've never encountered a student eager to find out how he did on 'teamwork'. It's grades that matter
JavaBlues 1 year ago