Drive and Motivation
Grade abatement eliminates the worst of the impact of traditional grades, but there is still a score in the gradebook every three weeks or so. There just isn’t any illusion about how grades act as a vector for the most toxic parts of education.
We also have no illusions about how hard it is to make the right decision. How do you motivate yourself outside of that number? How do you improve without a grade? And what do you do when even clicking on the links that answer these questions feels too difficult?