It is taken for granted that students taking a course will receive grades. But when we give a course or workshop to colleagues, or when we follow professional training as part of our jobs, nobody even thinks of handing out grades. We’d actively protest, I believe. This would be silly. We’re adults, thank you very much!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don’t mind being assessed. In fact, many participants in courses, workshops, and training programs welcome feedback, positive and<\/em> negative (constructive). And we expect to be tested. But we expect the result to simply be pass\/fail. Why on Earth should we get grades on a scale of 1-10?<\/p>\n\n\n\n But then, what’s so different with students?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is taken for granted that students taking a course will receive grades. But when we give a course or workshop to colleagues, or when we follow professional training as part of our jobs, nobody even thinks of handing out grades. We’d actively protest, I believe. This would be silly. We’re adults, thank you very … Continue reading Grades<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13,21],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-education","tag-grading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}