On grades and grading : supporting student learning through a more transparent and purposeful use of grades / Timothy Quinn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2013]Description: xiv, 123 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781610489119
  • 161048911X
  • 9781610489126
  • 1610489128
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.27/2 23
LOC classification:
  • LB3051 .Q57 2013
Contents:
Grades defined -- The pedagogical purposes of grades -- Grade inflation -- The forms grades take: numbers vs. letters -- Determining summative grades -- Grading and failure: retakes and rewrites -- Grading behaviors and dispositions -- Grading collaborative work -- Self-assessment and self-grading -- Technology and the grading process -- The issue of inconsistency -- The advantages and disadvantages of rubrics -- How to report grades -- Shifting the focus from grades to learning.
Summary: ""Educators will find both concrete strategies for improving their grading systems and policies and, perhaps most importantly, a rich resource for improving student learning. Ultimately, Quinn hopes to create a world in which students, parents, and teachers all pay more attention to learning and less to grades themselves.""--Amazon.com."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-116) and index.

Grades defined -- The pedagogical purposes of grades -- Grade inflation -- The forms grades take: numbers vs. letters -- Determining summative grades -- Grading and failure: retakes and rewrites -- Grading behaviors and dispositions -- Grading collaborative work -- Self-assessment and self-grading -- Technology and the grading process -- The issue of inconsistency -- The advantages and disadvantages of rubrics -- How to report grades -- Shifting the focus from grades to learning.

""Educators will find both concrete strategies for improving their grading systems and policies and, perhaps most importantly, a rich resource for improving student learning. Ultimately, Quinn hopes to create a world in which students, parents, and teachers all pay more attention to learning and less to grades themselves.""--Amazon.com."

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