Adoption of labor-based grading in public schools?

[Anonymous]

I’ve been reading Asao B. Inoue's book, Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom.

They make a strong case for more compassionate and equitable grading. Anyone have experience with these models?

[Anonymous]

For an incentive perspective it would discourage the talented students who would learn to do poor work and then slowly increase the effort to appear like they are working hard to get an A with much less effort.

[Anonymous]

"labor based grading" is not a term I've heard before. Can you elaborate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For an incentive perspective it would discourage the talented students who would learn to do poor work and then slowly increase the effort to appear like they are working hard to get an A with much less effort.

This. It creates perverse incentives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For an incentive perspective it would discourage the talented students who would learn to do poor work and then slowly increase the effort to appear like they are working hard to get an A with much less effort.

I don’t understand what compassionate grading means but let’s stop worrying about lazy talented kids who would use anything to do less work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For an incentive perspective it would discourage the talented students who would learn to do poor work and then slowly increase the effort to appear like they are working hard to get an A with much less effort.

I don’t understand what compassionate grading means but let’s stop worrying about lazy talented kids who would use anything to do less work.

No, let's not. Laziness is the result of how you reward (or don't reward) effort. If a kid gets the same rewards with less effort, it's not surprising they end up lazy and it's not fair to blame the kid rather than the adult setting them up to fail.

[Anonymous]

Grading is fundamentally broken because evaluative feedback is mixed with developmental feedback and that ruins it.

[Anonymous]

Sounds fine for K-2; after that, that's how you get students at selective universities who don't understand fractions and can't write a coherent paragraph.

[Anonymous]

Is the goal of the classroom to get students to work or to get them to learn? We should reward the thing we want them to do.