I have lately been redefining what it means to assess learning, especially when it comes to skills. In my classroom I am under obligation to assess the language skills of students. It strikes me as a bit absurd. In our high-minded (and seriously misguided) pride, we recently relabelled the traditional letter grade system with a levelled system. It was thought to be that giving arbitrary letters to work (A, B, C, D) that students would aim for the grade rather than the learning experience (very true). So we renamed it level 1, 2, 3, and 4, with level 4 being the highest. I'm not sure who we thought we were fooling. Somewhere reluctant educators still clung to the "plus" and "minus" system, so that a level 4 could be subsequently divided into 4-, 4, and 4+. Please tell me no one still thinks that 4+ is not the equivalent of an A+. Students saw right through it.
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