Podcast Episode 10: Education: Giving Zeros
As used in schools today, a zero indicates that a student does not deserve any credit. While teachers and parents justify and defend their use, zeros rarely serve the purposes intended. In this episode of The Mental Breakdown, Drs. Berney and Richard discuss the most common reasons teachers assign zeros, the fallacies associated with those zeros, and the true effects that they have on student motivation and performance. Drs. Berney and Richard then offer several alternatives to zeros that provide teachers and school administrators with more useful and more effective ways of evaluating student performance.
This episode was edited by Mr. Andrew Rasmussen.
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