Narratives are helpful only in the absence of grades
This is such a powerful sentence because it reflects how I feel about feedback accompanied by grades, because even though the feedback is helpful, the bad grade is such an emotional blow to me and ruins my mood completely.
mathematical algorithms have been committed to memory
I feel like with math I never really learn anything because I just memorize the concepts for a grade and then forget about it entirely once it's done.
There is certainly value in assessing the quality of learning and teaching, but that doesn’t mean it’s always necessary, or even possible, to measure those things — that is, to turn them into numbers.
This makes me wonder, is the reason why the standard based grading system still exist is because we haven't found a better alternative for it. It's also about which one is more time consuming, because giving individual feedback to hundreds of students is a lot more time consuming for teachers than just handing out grades.
in favor of a pass/fail system
Do P/NP systems really makes learning more enjoyable? Because I feel like most people P/NP because they fear that they will either not get a desired grade on the subject or that they won't be able to keep up with the course material.
In one experiment, students told they’d be graded on how well they learned a social studies lesson had more trouble understanding the main point of the text than did students who were told that no grades would be involved.
This makes me sad because history is my favorite subject but I know that plenty of people hate it because it's boring or they don't end up remembering anything important because everything they do is for a grade, so that takes the joy of learning about history away.
* Grades tend to diminish students’ interest in whatever they’re learning.
As someone who watches a lot of educational videos on YouTube and who also dwells on the YouTube comment section a lot, I've seen a lot of people who say that learning is the most fun for them whenever they're doing it on their own and when there are no stakes involved, and those comments got a lot of upvotes.