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How to Assess Students: Rewarding Results or Rewarding Efforts?

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The main objective of teaching is to make sure that the students learn the required material. From this viewpoint, it seems reasonable to reward students when they learn this material. In other words, it seems reasonable to assign the student’s rewards (such as grades) based on their level of knowledge.

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Kosheleva, O., Villaverde, K. (2018). How to Assess Students: Rewarding Results or Rewarding Efforts?. In: How Interval and Fuzzy Techniques Can Improve Teaching. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55993-2_28

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