"In a few years, students may no longer be assessed with numerical marks but with smileys."
It was written by our colleagues from
Le Figaro,
in 2010. Ten years later, this sentence which seemed like a bad Orwellian anticipation became reality in a good number of establishments in France.
Launched and fully installed in primary, the system has progressed to college - and begins to interfere in high school.
The idea was simple: it was necessary to make the evaluation
"more constructive, more individualized"
, in the words of a certain Jean-Michel Blanquer, then director general of school education, but without
"being less demanding.
We don't want the notes to die, they are complementary. ”
Today, however, the death of the notes seems programmed.
After numerous debates between researchers, docimologists (the science of evaluation), sociologists, psychologists and philosophers, the zeitgeist has stopped stigmatizing students through grading.
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