Re: Justification for the SAT

["Dr. William C. Cala, Ed.D." <wcala@SERVTECH.COM>]

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From: "Eric Crump" <ecrump@INTERVERSITY.ORG>
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Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: Justification for the SAT


> On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Stephen McGinnis wrote:
> > The fundamental problem is the inherent bias in the assessment reform
> > community.  There is an unquestioned belief that somehow teachers assign
> > grades in a perfect manner that never contains bias.
>
> Not entirely unquestioned. I may be in the minority, but I think grades
> are worse than tests. A number of reasons, including: They are inherently
> and profoundly subjective evaluations disguised as objective by people
> (teachers) who really ought to know better. They are more deeply embedded
> in the education system, so deeply, I think, that they might be considered
> part of its bones (therefore reform of evaluation is difficult because
> people rightly sense that if you pull grading out the whole skeleton will
> implode).
>
> If you (or anybody else) is interested, I host a discussion list on the
> subject of (un)grading. We talk about the history of grading, the problems
> with grading, and plot for the demise of grading.
>
> http://www.interversity.org/lists/ungrading
>
> or send email to majordomo@interversity.org and in the message body put:
> subscribe ungrading
>
> Holler if you run into trouble or have questions.
>
> --Eric Crump
>
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