Everything I Knew about Grading Was Wrong
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Everything I Knew about Grading Was Wrong
By Stephanie Farley
When I was first introduced to competency- or mastery-based grading in 2017, it was an exceedingly undignified experience because it felt like everything I knew about grading was wrong.
I had been asked by my school to attend a conference of what was called the Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC, now owned by ETS), as the school was considering joining the consortium. I was sent to learn what competency-based grading was all about,...