Is grading killing learning for our students?

By Dan Haesler
Community contribution / August 14, 2015

How many of your kids really want to master their subjects, or do they just want to get a good enough mark to keep people off their backs?

You’ve spent time crafting what you think is an “authentic” learning task, one that kids will really engage with and ...

This story appeared in the September 2015 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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Is grading killing learning for our students?

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