“If giving points is the only way to motivate a student…”
by TeachThought Staff
While tweeting about assessment, grading, feedback, and the value of the work we ask students to do, Terry Heick fulfilled his year quota of useful statements (two), with the two tweets below.
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Don’t grade practice. Give feedback. And most work should be practice.
— Terry Heick (@terryheick) January 10, 2016
If giving points is the only way to motivate a student to complete an assignment, perhaps we should look more closely at the assignment.
— Terry Heick (@terryheick) January 10, 2016
And queenmthtchr made a great point in a response:
@terryheick @TeachThought getting students weaned from grades and to knowledge is the challenge. Valuing knowledge is so important!
— Mrs Mashinchi (@Queenmthtchr) January 10, 2016
“If giving points is the only way to motivate a student…”; image attribution flickr user andersruffcustomdesign