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Ungrading Uncovered: How Going Gradeless Can Support Learner Diversity In Higher Education, Shaun Ferns, Robert Hickey, Helen Williams
Ungrading Uncovered: How Going Gradeless Can Support Learner Diversity In Higher Education, Shaun Ferns, Robert Hickey, Helen Williams
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The awarding of grades or marks to student work is traditionally considered a fundamental feature of assessment. Traditional grades, the awarding of numeric values to student work, date back to the 1600s where Harvard used exit grades to measure and categorize students (Smallwood, 1935). Grades became more widely established in the education sector at the beginning of the twentieth century to deal with increased numbers of students and as a means of communication between educational institutions and third parties, a form of universal measurement. Although becoming ubiquitous across most educational spectrums in the second half of the twentieth century, there …