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(emma) I remember in 4th grade we had a homework chart and there was a sticker system -- one day I forgot my homework at home and so I didn't get a sticker on the homework chart that was on the wall for everyone to see and I felt really embarrassed and ashamed.

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We had to do our times tables and we only had a certain amount of time to get it done. I was often significantly behind my classmates with how much I could do w/in a time and was pretty upset about it. I remember liking math less

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I did a difficult math competition paper at 8th grade, and only got 9 scores, then I check with other classmates, they are not doing good too. Then I got to know grade is a way to see where is your position among peers, not only a number

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To communicate something about what students have achieved in a class?

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I remember my older brother (5 years older) and I both had to take some sort of IQ test when we started schooling. For the final "grade", my brother did much better than me, and my dad decided to tell us as much (I hadn't even started kindergarten yet). It caused me to hold onto beliefs that I wasn't as smart as my brother, and framed our schooling in a competitive rather than supportive manner.

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Strongest was graded on Senior Thesis / Project in college.

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Strongest was graded on Senior Thesis / Project in college.

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a test during halloween, iwas dressed as scorpion from Mortal kombat, got a good history test grade and my teacher praised me for it, a i waddled up with my costume on and got a neat letter/certificate something like that

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I misspelled the word, "the" on a quiz. Some other kid made fun of me. I felt bad

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It made me feel special because my teacher was so nice to me. My first interaction with a teacher

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Students might be more engaged with the content and less engaged with how to do it "right"

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If we didn't assign any grades, I think it'd be really difficult to incentivize students to actually do the work and have something else to assess their progress. At the same time, this is a problematic notion that grades are so closely associated as an incentive / indicator of progress. - Cindy

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As an assessment where a student is on a continuum against a rubric, etc. 

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As an assessment where a student is on a continuum against a rubric, etc. 

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It is a system to help students interact/ visually see their comprehension

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First time I got an A that I felt that I worked for.
Amir

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(emma) To let students know how they are doing in class and provide feedback, areas of improvement.

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See what you do/don't know, to see who is keeping pace with material

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No one would have a way of understanding how much they really know

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(emma) lots of feelings.... I think a lot of students would feel confused and upset and an equal amount would feel a huge weight off their shoulders and feel more ready to engage. I think so much of this is how the teacher sets it up and helps students un/relearns new ways of assessing their progress and creating avenues for self-determination through concepts.

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Why aren't all grades pass/fail and why are students assessed on whether they can perform tasks or skills?

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To check which content student are having trouble, and reshape on the teaching tomorrow, iterating to adjust

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How to make a grade accurately reflect students' comprhension?

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How to make a grade accurately reflect students' comprhension?

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im not sure that would work out too well, incentives are all based around performance, speed, understanding - Kruschef

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Students might not do the work they are behind in

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see how students are meeting a standard? to give students a sense of how much they have mastered the material

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How do teachers work through distributing grade percentages (what accounts for what)? What can we do as teachers to motivate students to learn without the barrier of a physical grade? - Cindy

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to provide an easy way to assess and document student performance

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to provide an easy way to assess and document student performance

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I think the intended purpose of grades is to let student's know how close they are to understanding material, but I don't think it serves that purpose in practice.

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Pass/Fail with honest targeted feedback on student's progress

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Pass/Fail with honest targeted feedback on student's progress

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I genuinely don't know. I like to think it would decrease student stress about school, at the very least, and less stress to me=better learning. We'd have to try it and see. 

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I genuinely don't know. I like to think it would decrease student stress about school, at the very least, and less stress to me=better learning. We'd have to try it and see. 

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I remember my parents sitting me down to discuss how I had performed on a standardized test I took as a 1st grader. I did okay so it was an easy conversation. I felt good about it. A stronger memory I have was of deciding in the 8th grade that I was a B+/A- student. I remember specifically deciding that if I was averaging around there, I had put in enough effort for school, but not more than I wanted to be.

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you'd eliminate a major source of motivation and/or stress for some students.

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Like a "progress report" I guess it is a way to measure a students competency or understanding of material.
Amir

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Replace it with written feedback? I just think of the whole "getting into college" and the falsehood of a meritocracy

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To give feedbacks in a positive way, and personalized grading each student's work

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(emma) How do we give effective  feedback that doesn't suck all the time and life out of the teacher?
what the heck is "fair"?
how do we grade assignments that are in different mediums?
how do we move away from grade based motivation?

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Grades are used as a way to assess how well students understand what was taught, but doesn't necessarily reflect how well they know the material and whether they retain it long-term. Grades have mostly been used in my classrooms as an indicator of how students are doing in a class. - Cindy

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how do teachers keep up with all of the work that comes out of a traditional grading scheme?

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High Expectations vs Grading Reticent (?)

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How to give constructive feedback without it sounding judgmental. Objective vs subjective.

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How to give constructive feedback without it sounding judgmental. Objective vs subjective.

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To identify areas to work on and areas that are strong already.  The detailed feedback is perhaps more interesting than the overall grade.

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Grades were created to show quality. Often times that is a measure of how well a student can communicate what they have learned, and not actually what they know.

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Why do schools (generally) still use letter grades? 

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Why do schools (generally) still use letter grades? 

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Strongest memory was a 60% on my college physics quiz on kinematics. But my professor gave me a chance to redo the problem and attempt another version of the quiz, and it replaced my old quiz score (90%!) - Cindy

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It feels like it could be for better or for worse but either way, I can't say that grades are the best way to manage academic proficiency.
Amir

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Student will focus less on getting it right, instead to learn.

Student don't know what part they got/didn't got. Sometimes they don't know they misunderstand it.

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how can we emphasize they are malleable? gamify grades? represent in a way that feels changeable?

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When to grade on completion vs on content knowledge.  How to balance the weight?

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Is there a way to change the stigma that grades have?
Amir

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It’s fine, as long as there is a feedback approach

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In 1st grade we had English dictation. I spelled all the words right, but wrote them across the row instead of in columns as instructed. I got a 2/10. There was no grace given. Realized a grade can be about something else (in this case about following rules), and not necessarily a reflection of what I know. - connie