Dr. Lindsay Portnoy
1 min readApr 10, 2017

Yes! This is the holy grail of education. With small enough class sizes and a focus on process over product teachers can provide the qualitatively rich feedback that helps students learn and grow.

This feedback will help students develop a growth mindset by understanding where they are in their learning and where they must go to truly demonstrate mastery.

There are so many theories to cite as support but none so prevalent as the potential to move students from a performance to a mastery orientation through the use of qualitative over quantitative feedback.

Thank you for this great piece Arthur!

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Dr. Lindsay Portnoy
Dr. Lindsay Portnoy

Written by Dr. Lindsay Portnoy

Intellectually curious. I follow my ideas. Cognitive scientist, author, educator, activist.

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Thanks for the read, Dr. Portnoy!

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Reducing class sizes is an issue that with budget cuts is not likely to become a reality, making it difficult to give the timely feedback we ideally would give.

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