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Description of  Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don t Have To)

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 childs report card knows that the way we assess student learning in American schools is freighted with unintended consequences. But thats not all. As experts agree, our primary assessment technologiesgrading, rating, and rankingdont 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 Read more