Josh Eyler shares even more problems with grades on episode 533 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Being a dad who is an educator takes things from the academic and intellectual and brings them immediately to the surface, to the real world and to the real consequences for students and families.

The conflict between what we think and what we value and what we want for our kids and what the world and our school systems say are important can sometimes be almost irreconcilable.

We need to create environments that will cultivate intrinsic motivation.

In situations where grades are given, students tend to be more fearful of making mistakes. They produce more behaviors of trying to get the grade rather than learning.

Grades are not objective accurate measurements of learning according to this research.

If grades don’t measure what they’re supposed to measure, why are we using them, and why are we putting so much pressure on them?