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Product Description
Create and sustain a learning environment where students thrive and stakeholders are accurately informed of student progress. Clarify the purpose of grades, craft a vision statement aligned with this purpose, and discover research-based strategies to implement effective grading and reporting practices. Identify policies and practices that render grading inaccurate, and understand the role grades play in students' future success and opportunities.
K-12 teachers and administrators will:
- Question traditional grading and reporting practices, and seek more accurate practices.
- Identify the purpose of grading, and ensure school and classroom visions, practices, and policies support it.
- Implement research-based grading and reporting practices that promote accurate, useful accounts of student learning.
- Understand why traditional practices, such as grading on the curve and offering plus or minus grades, don't fully report student academic performance.
- Examine grading and reporting policies, and make sure they support students, parents, and other stakeholders.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Define the Purpose of Grades
Chapter 2: Challenge the Use of Percentage Grades
Chapter 3: Challenge Plus and Minus and Half-Grade Increments
Chapter 4: Challenge Bell-Shaped Grade Distributions
Chapter 5: Challenge the Computation of Class Rank
Chapter 6: Challenge the Use of a Single Grade
Chapter 7: Challenge the Use of Mathematical Algorithms
Chapter 8: Challenge Practices That Confound the Meaning of Grades
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