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A single mark cannot reflect the range of what a student has learnt in a course, so why not supplement or replace it with digital badges to demonstrate achievements and skills?

Heather Sharp and colleagues from Uni Newcastle found good reasons to do this in an initial teacher education course but also found a big reason not to – “delaying the awarding of marks caused significant student anxiety.” Results are released in a new paper.

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