Prof. Icy Lee: The Tragedy of Errors
27 March 2016
When secondary-school students learning English in Hong Kong get back their assignments from their teachers, they sometimes find themselves staring at a sea of red ink. Their instructors feel an obligation to mark up every single mistake, just as their own work was graded when they grew up. But they are doing their students and even themselves a disservice, according to the research of Prof. Icy Lee, the chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at CUHK and a member of S.H. Ho College. They burden their charges with a host of changes that they don’t always understand – and they burden themselves with hours of unproductive grading, a task that many say is their least-favourite aspect of teaching. Click here to read more about her insight on selective marking.
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27 March 2016
改簿達人李潔冰﹕扣分制度，out喇 (明報)
