Alfie Kohn on Nostr: Jerome Bruner reminded us that we want students to "experience success and failure ...

Jerome Bruner reminded us that we want students to "experience success and failure not as reward and punishment but as information." This insight is so essential that I call it Bruner's Law.

Its immediate implication is that grades must be eliminated (not merely tweaked) since they're inevitably experienced by students as rewards and punishments.

Beyond that, we should use Bruner's Law as the standard by which to weigh all other assessment practices and whether they make sense.