The Accountability Myth
Why Zeros, Penalties, and Points Don't Teach Responsibility
💡 In this free webinar, you’ll learn how to:
✔︎ Identify Grading Practices That Distort Accountability
Examine how zeros, penalties, and point accumulation blur the line between achievement and behaviour, and why that confusion backfires.
✔︎ Separate Academic Achievement from Behavioural Attributes
Learn how to honour responsibility, effort, and work habits without embedding them in grades, protecting accuracy while maintaining high expectations.
✔︎ Teach Responsibility Without Using Grades as Punishment
Explore practical, assessment-aligned approaches that build ownership, follow-through, and self-regulation without relying on consequences that don’t transfer.
✔︎ Communicate a Clear, Defensible Vision of Accountability
Gain language you can use with colleagues, students, and families to explain how responsibility is taught through clarity, feedback, and reinforcement, not penalties.
Timestamps:
6:10 - Why Punishment Does Not Teach Responsibility
16:35 - Meet Tom the Zeros Guy
23:55 - The Complete Picture of Grading
25:55 - Three Issues to Confront
40:20 - An Organizational System to Teach Responsibility
1:06:50 - Live Q&A with Tom
What's Next?
Want to more successfully implement Outcomes-Based Grading?
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Want to strengthen Outcomes-Based Grading within your school or district?
→ Work directly with Tom, or another one of our consultants at the Canadian Assessment Centre. Whether it is for a keynote, workshop, or virtual coaching, our core value in partnership is co-design. Please contact us so that we can build a custom proposal for your unique context.
