The University of Illinois College of Medicine is promoting a web page that encourages professors to adopt “Equitable Assessments & Grading Practices.” “Equitable assessments and grading practices emphasize the process of learning versus performance outcomes and the attainment of grades,” the page, linked on the college’s website emphasizes. One of the listed benefits of grading according to equity is that the practice allows professors to “respect the diversity of students’ social identities as well as the diversity of student interests.

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