No, Retakes Are Not a Bad Idea

Published: 2019-08-14 03:55 |

Category: Grading | Tags: assessment, commentary, equity, opportunity, retakes, retort, sbg, standards based grading


There's an Edutopia article cycling around which argues against allowing retakes on assessments. The author builds a case focused on motivation, mental health, and teacher effectivness.

Instead of doing a large breakdown here, I annotated the original article with my pushback in context.

On a semi-related note, If you don't have the hypothes.is extension installed, you should grab it and leave replies on the original article. Comments are also welcome here.

Comments are always open. You can get in touch by sending me an email at brian@ohheybrian.com