[WalterBright]

> Grading your own work is not going to lead to healthy outcomes.

Sigh. Why do people keep bringing this up? Of course you'd need an assessment test that is not under the control of the teacher. Nobody sets up an incentive program where the person being incentivized evaluates himself.

Come on. Give me a reasonable riposte.

[lordnacho]

I think you need to steelman my arguments, per HN guidelines. I didn't say that each teacher would literally mark their own work, the fair interpretation would be that another teacher or committee of teachers would do this.

Here's what I wrote:

> But then who defines the baseline? Teachers again. Maybe not the exact same teachers but they are all part of the same system.

So how do you intend to grade the teacher's work, except by other teachers, who are in the same position?

This is just like having board members appointing CEOs out of the same pool.

In fact, it's a pretty hard problem to deal with in general, and it appears many places in society, so it's fair to ask how this would be dealt with.

If we're going to build an incentive system, we don't want it to be gamed.