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What students do

Submitted by LuisanaT on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 3:52pm.
Students tend to strive to proving their hypothesis to be right. For right answers get better grades in our current educational system. Here, right answers mean getting things done.
But there is more value in proving how/why something is wrong because it requires a certain level of research, empowerment, inquiry, confidence etc. from students that is worth practicing and strengthening.
So the real question therefore is how to go about grading students on the basis that nothing is right but only less wrong. One interesting way would be to mimic the protocol when teaching the methods of debate; rewards are given to those who are able to come to sophisticated, well-researched arguments-stories- that they can strongly defend orally or otherwise.

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