I have had a number of people ask me to share a 'table-of-contents' for my blog posts on why and how we should abolish grading. Here is a list of blog posts that should help you gain insight into this whole abolishing grading topic. I will add more as I write them.
Real learning is found in children not data - We have to abandon our mania for reducing everything to numbers.
Mount Olive School District abolishes the D - This is exactly why tougher standards, grading, test scores and competition don't make schools better - they simply make schools more like their mediocre neighbors.
So I wrote Alfie Kohn... by Pernille Ripp - guest blog post about abolish grading resources
What vs How - any assessment can be over done
My Abolishing and Replacing Grading Reform Symposium Presentation - here is the archived Eluminate talk I gave for a free, on line symposium.
Working with Parents to Abolish Grading - here's a list of questions I ask parents to make them my ally to abolish grading.
Grading without Grading - here's how to grade without grades even if you have to grade.
Slave to the Grades - too many teachers have deferred their professionalism to their grade books.
Rubrics - the predetermined space - too often rubrics are simply limiting.
Late marks are egg management fees - it's not nice to steal from children.
Grading Nursing - Here's my sister guest blogging about a real life horror story about grading and her Masters in Nursing.
Where are we? - When we are busy grading we are not busy teaching, and our students learning suffers.
Grading Amnesia - Here's how grading is infinitely arbitrary and what we can do about it.
Grading Goslings - Here's how grading distorts our perception of real learning and the purpose of school.
Bubble Sheet Season - At no time in the school year will so little learning occur than during final exams.
You can't construct meaning in a preconceived bubble - Here's more on why multiple choice tests can never measure real learning.
Learning as a chore - Reward systems that bribe kids to learn implant a dangerous anchor. What if kids come to see learning as a mere means to an end? What if they see learning as something to only engage in if the conditions are profitable?
Grading Amnesia - We've anchored ourselves in a false, grading reality. It's time we wake up.
Grading: Education's Snake-Oil Currency - Grading has done us wrong for too long. Let's do something about it.
The shelf life of grading and the factory model - Grades are only necessary if we continue to subscribe to the factory model. That subscription has come due, and it's time to move to a more organic, personalized model.
The Culture of Public Education - The culture of public education has been poisoned by grading and testing.
No Good Reason to Grade - here's why there really is no good reason to grade
Museum of Education - here's why we need to abolish grading
Fraudulent Fabrications - reducing learning to a symbol conceals more than it reveals, and it is our responsibility to educate the public so they may properly insulate themselves from experiencing undue harm.
The Folly of Rubrics and Grades - here's why rubrics and grades are so subjective and ultimately don't measure up to the task.
What leads to success? - here's how grades are at best unhelpful and at worst harmful towards our ultimate goals for children.
Abolishing Grading Video - character education & collaboration - here is a 5 minute video on how grading sabotages the best kinds of character education and collaboration
Grading Effort: Unintended Consequences - here's why we shouldn't grade effort.
Grades are artifically sabotaging one kid at a time... - here's how grading sabotages learning.
Destructive Grading Schemes - here's more on how grading sabotages learning
Grades & Risk Aversion - here's even more on how grading sabotages learning
End Grading's Reign of Extrinsic Terror - here's how grading sabotages motivation
Grades are Distracting - here's an example of how grading can distract us from real learning.
Information vs Reward and Punishment - Jerome Bruner and John Wooden both agree, rewards and punishment must go. Because grades are a judgement, they serve no real purpose in learning.
Pink, Godin, Kohn and asymptotes - Grades get learning wrong because they are linear but learning is an asymptote.
Replacing Grading - here's how I replaced grading even though I still have to place a grade on the report card.
Assessment Malpractice - here's a brief summary of the two kinds of assessment: formative and summative.
Fears of Abolishing Grading - here's what scares us
Detoxing students from grade use - if you chose to abolish grades, here's how students may react. 6 steps based on my 5 year study.
No Grades and Group work - here's a true story how having no grades can make group a beautiful thing.
