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Assessment without grades
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Follow a discussion of advantages, doubts and conditions.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- feedback
- Comments that help a person improve.
- evaporate
- To disappear gradually.
- accustomed
- Used to something.
- hinge on
- To depend completely on.
Answer key
- A growing number of schools are experimenting with feedback in place of marks, hoping to shift attention from outcomes to learning.“A number of” takes a plural verb: “are”. “In place of” means instead of.
- The reasoning is that a single letter tells a student where they stand but offers no guidance on where to go next.“Where they stand” means how well they are doing. “Guidance” is GUY-dense.
- Doubters worry that without grades motivation will evaporate, particularly for pupils long accustomed to being rewarded for results alone.“Accustomed to” is followed by an -ing form: “being rewarded”. “Alone” stresses only results.
- Early findings suggest that detailed comments are valued more highly, provided teachers can find the time to write them.“Provided” means only if. “Valued more highly” uses the comparative of “highly”.
- Ultimately, the success of any such reform hinges on whether parents and universities are prepared to trust a different currency.“Hinges on” is followed by “whether”. “Currency” is used as a metaphor for a way of measuring value.