{"id":46476,"date":"2019-01-05T13:47:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T21:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=46476"},"modified":"2019-01-05T13:47:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T21:47:20","slug":"columbia-let-students-grade-themselves-its-inclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/columbia-let-students-grade-themselves-its-inclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia: Let students grade themselves. It\u2019s inclusive!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cDrink Brawndo. It Has Electrolytes!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

–from the movie Idiocracy, which presents an alarmingly credible look into our future. The word \u201cinclusive\u201d is used much like electrolytes in the movie, without considering if there\u2019s any evidence having such things is always a good idea.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hey, remember last post where the Progressives had decided students can\u2019t be trusted to evaluate their professors because RACISM? I sure do. Well, that doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t evaluate themselves:<\/p>\n

Columbia University Seminar to Promote \u2018Inclusive Grading\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cInclusive\u201d is one the many code words relating to RACISM, in this case meaning a way to get around theoretical racial inequality. What\u2019s the workaround in this case?<\/p>\n

According to a December 6, 2017 Powerpoint presentation by the CTL<\/a>, inclusive grading starts by \u201ctrusting students to assess themselves.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Fifteen of the 34 Powerpoint slides specifically encourage professors to let students grade themselves. If students can choose their own grades, the presentation asserts, then they\u2019ll feel less stress and anxiety, and maybe even learn more productively.<\/em><\/p>\n

Heck, why don\u2019t we just get rid of the professors, and just have the students do it all? It\u2019d free up much more money for administrative pay raises. I\u2019m there\u2019s some lakefront property they haven\u2019t bought yet.<\/p>\n

We already know GPA is ultimately worthless<\/a> even in academia, but the uselessness of GPA in the \u201creal world\u201d has been reality for a long time. All grades are for is motivation, little different than how parents use Santa Claus to get kids to behave.<\/p>\n

Hey, do we have any academics advocating for how little kids should be allowed to get their own gifts for Christmas? I mean, Santa is white, so they could certainly argue RACISM is a factor here. Oh wait, there aren\u2019t any student loan checks involved.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I concede I was graded with unfair harshness from time to time in school\u2026and graded generously a few times as well. I couldn\u2019t tell you if overall my GPA would have shifted 0.1 one way or the other, but it doesn\u2019t matter: the false value of \u201cgrade\u201d motivated me to work just a bit harder than I would have otherwise, and that\u2019s the entire point of grades. Despite the inherent falseness, I would no more get rid of this system than seek to annihilate Santa from our culture.<\/p>\n

So, despite the fact that RACISM means students can\u2019t be trusted to evaluate their teachers, RACISM also means students can be trusted to evaluate themselves.<\/p>\n

Times like these, I really appreciate being in mathematics, as such contradictory thinking would make my head hurt if chemo didn\u2019t already do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrades are currency for a capitalist system<\/strong> that reduces teaching and learning to a mere transaction\u201d (emphasis added), the CTL states, quoting activist Jesse Stommel. \u201cGrading is a massive co-ordinated effort to take humans out of the educational process.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I swear I hear the mock Russian \u201ckyep-it-al-ist\u201d in my head when I read \u201ccapitalist\u201d in the above. He\u2019s seriously saying grading takes humans out of the educational process? This truly is documenting how little faculty measure here: we don\u2019t even register as human<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I really want to point out the people running these seminars are Educationists, they have Ph.D. degrees in Education\u2026and yet they don\u2019t know grades are simply a motivational tool. Educationist training really is that atrocious<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How can none of the academics involved in this not see obvious flaws in thinking like I\u2019ve pointed out, above?<\/p>\n

According to one study by Nelta Edwards<\/a>, a professor at the University of Alaska, 86% of students report<\/a> that \u201cself grading is a great\/good teaching method.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, no kidding. I suspect 86% of kids report chocolate cake for breakfast is a great\/good meal. Nevertheless this type of study will be used to support these lunatic ideas.<\/p>\n

This is actually part of a whole series of seminars on \u201cInclusiveness,\u201d which is really just another sham to try get the system to grow just a little bit more, exploiting the few parts of our population that haven\u2019t been screwed by the worst aspects of higher education.<\/p>\n

The \u201cInclusive Teaching Seminar<\/a>\u201d will be held in Spring 2018 and will host five meetings. While \u201cinclusive\u201d is vague, the CTL website explains that each session will be dedicated to a specific topic, such as \u201cinclusive grading\u201d or \u201cpreventing microaggressions.\u201d<\/p>\n

I wish them luck on these kinds of seminars, I really do, but I also wish someone would show up and ask real questions about the thinking involved in the policy changes they are advocating. Seminars like these go on throughout the country on campuses all the time. They give their talk, there\u2019s polite applause\u2026and a few months later some Dean will be ordering community college adjuncts to have students grade themselves, cheerfully implying anyone who opposes her must be a RACIST.<\/p>\n

And she\u2019ll have these nice results from Columbia backing her up\u2026<\/p>\n

www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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