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]]> In most classrooms across the country, a student is graded on the things he/she hands in. Maybe the teacher throws in “class participation” to calculate the final average. But a grade should be more than the evaluation of a product. A grade should reflect a student’s engagement, curiosity and intelligent risk-taking. It should reward the seeking of understanding over the pursuit of the expedient answer. With those things in mind, we should devise assessments that give us access to a student’s process and not just to the end result. Then we should find effective ways to evaluate both together. The product is one performance of learning, and it should matter. But the process is the learning, and it predicts more accurately what kind of future learning a student will do.

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