Do you know who I am? (Exposure of the time paradigm in grading)

I love this video (from New Zealand's Instant Kiwi Lotto) for its exposure of the time paradigm and its place in grades.



Note that the student had actually already finished his work, thereby satisfying the arbitrary time limit set for this exam.  Students miss deadlines for a variety of reasons, from procrastination to instability in their home lives to slowness in learning the material.  While I'm not advocating a total eradication of deadlines, inside the mastery paradigm, teachers need to ensure that lateness doesn't blur the academic information conveyed by the grade book.  The grade book is a place to report academic achievement in the subject area, period.  In short, missing deadlines or time limits needs to be recorded and/or dealt with somewhere else.

The question arises: If we get rid of late penalties, how can we prevent students from taking advantage of us?  We'll deal with that in a later post...in the meantime, enjoy the video.