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Title page 1

Contents 5

Foreword 8

About the series 10

About the author 11

Acknowledgements 12

Ethics approval 13

Introduction 14

1. The global triumph of grades 22

2. Schooling and grading - the German way 34

3. Educational realities in a disadvantaged comprehensive school 48

4. 'What did you get?' Lateral and hierarchical visibility through grades 63

5. 'It's understandable if it destroys you, right?' Students' graded identities 82

6. 'To assign people their place in society' - Marks and meritocracy 98

7. 'Mostly in the heart' - Discipline and the corporeality of being graded 114

8. 'She can make you into a tramp' - Testimonial injustice against the bearers of numbers 138

9. On the ethics of quantification 160

Conclusion 181

Appendix A: Translations of student resolutions 192

Appendix B: Additional student drawings 193

References 195

Index 225

Figures 7

Figure 2.1. The German grading scale 45

Figure 2.2. Conversion table from points to Abitur GPA (adapted from MSB NRW 2018a) 46

Figure 4.1. Student overview for the grade conference 77

Figure 6.1. A public display of student resolutions in a year eight classroom 104

Figure 7.1. Felix's drawing 131

Figure 7.2. Jamil's drawing 132

Figure 7.3. Nayla's drawing 132

Figure 7.4. Valentin's drawing 133

Appendix Figures 7

Figure A.1. Translation of student resolutions (depicted as Figure 6.1) 192

Figure B.1. Lena's drawing 193

Figure B.2. Dennis's drawing 194

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There are few things left on earth that people have not attempted to measure. From temperature to time, from finances to football, numbers are a crucial mediator of how we perceive and understand the world we live in. Increasingly, however, it is humans themselves who are the subject of quantification. Our fitness and success, even our personality traits and attractiveness, are now the stuff of scales and scores. But what does it do to us to be on the receiving end of such measurement?

One of the world's most successful global metrics is the school grade. Long predating the digital age, educational marks can be traced back at least to sixteenth-century European schools and have since conquered the world, becoming the indicator of academic achievement.

To understand what it means to be quantified, No?lle Rohde undertook in-depth fieldwork in a German comprehensive school where students receive more than one hundred grades per year. By staying close to the pupils as they are continually examined and assessed, her ethnography illustrates how marks mould students' self-images, how they enforce meritocratic thinking and serve as a potent disciplinary tool. Marked: School Grades and the Quantified Life not only offers a nuanced account of the effects of grades on students, but also tells a cautionary tale of the increasing quantification of human life.