User Generated Education

AUGUST 18, 2018

Academic standards used by almost all schools are based on the false and incorrect belief of the average student. This locked step is set by the ‘average’ pupil–an algebraic myth born of inanimate figures and an addled pedagogy. Grouping students by age or manufacturer date is a contrived sorting mechanism.

Academic Standards 113

Academic Standards Algebra Problem Solving Construction 113

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MAY 19, 2023

Second, students construct a final portfolio of work that shows how they have grown and/or met key course objectives. Insofar as it means anything, alternative forms of grading -- including but not limited to ungrading -- improve the "rigor" of a course by imbuing the course grade with more construct validity.

Publication 73

Publication Communications Construction Academic Standards 73

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 15, 2022

Those assessments can take on various forms, and in well-constructed courses they do have varying forms, corresponding to different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. It leads to "grade inflation" It violates some kind of academic machismo code that views student assessment like competition in an arena.

Academic Standards 52

Academic Standards Communications Calculus Argumentation 52