“In a nine-week period, every student needs to have two major grades and around five non-major grades… daily grades are short, low stakes, quick writes.”
School of Practice · I Stopped Giving Tests. Here’s What I Do Instead
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What was described
replaced high-stakes graded exams with two major project-type grades per nine-week period and about five low-stakes open-note or quick-write assignments
2 major grades, ~5 daily grades per 9-week period
Said nearby on the same subject
“I challenged them, hey, if you can read a biology textbook and pass the advanced placement exam, getting a perfect grade, then you will have proven that you are reading that is encoding knowledge”