I recently had a chance conversation with a teacher who believed that making a check mark beside incorrect answers or, and he was quite vehement and smug on this next point, use of a red pen was only to demean the child. I explained that without a metric there is no way to measure the child’s knowledge and no way to measure the instructors success at conveying knowledge. An incorrect answer is as much a measure of the child as the instructor. He did not agree and in fact was brimming with hostility, even before our conversation (he was mouthing off to some other person, which is what made me chime in).
Now there’s this story about prohibiting homework to lessen stress.
No homework. No incorrect answers. Hand wringing over stress and marking an incorrect answer, these kids are going to become psycho-losers AND IT’S THE TEACHERS’ FAULT.
Abolish government schools.
When I was a TA for freshman physics, I wielded the big red X on homework assignments with a purpose, knowing that many of the recipients would come back to me with, "Why did you give me a big red X?" ... "Well, you see ..."
BTW, they got points for handing in the assignment! There was no credit subtraction, just a BIG RED X.