Share Paper: Implications for Secondary Teachers Grading without Points

  1. Jay Percell, Illinois State University, United States
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Abstract: Many secondary teachers are realizing that traditional grading systems based on points and percentages either fail to adequately document a student's true skill set or ability level, or else—even worse—serve to demotivate students and squash their passion and love of learning altogether. Hence, many alternative grading systems have been on the rise lately, such as standards based grading, proficiency grading, contract grading, and even no grading at all. This paper is a portion of a larger qualitative study of secondary teachers who employed an alternative, non points-based grading system in their classrooms that analyzed their motivations and philosophies behind their ...