Barry Schwartz's book, The Cost of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life, has a chapter titled "The Debasing of Education: Turning Play into Work" that summarizes various evidence and makes a similar argument along these lines. On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 10:11 -0500, Daniel Ajoy wrote:

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I am looking for a study I used to know which demonstrated that the introduction of a grading scheme had a damaging effect on the ability of educators to actually teach students. Anybody got some references lying around?

Laura

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Daniel

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