Grades Can Hinder Learning. What Should Professors Use Instead?

 The Chronicle of Higher Learning published an article on Faculty Fellow Susan Blum, University of Notre Dame's anthropology professor, and her 'ungrading' system. In "Grades Can Hinder Learning. What Should Professors Use Instead?", it is shown how grades hinder a student's learning process. Grades, Blum is now convinced, are a barrier: between students and professors, between students and learning.