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Showing posts with label grading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grading. Show all posts

Sorting Out the Summative: When Standards-Based Grading Meets the End of the Semester

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Source: Wikipedia Many teachers who choose to use standards-based grading eventually find themselves facing the reality of their school...

RYSK: Butler's Effects on Intrinsic Motivation and Performance (1986) and Task-Involving and Ego-Involving Properties of Evaluation (1987)

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This is the third in a series of posts describing " Research You Should Know " (RYSK). As teachers, we care not only about what ...

2004-2006: My Adventures in Standards-Based Grading (And Why I Stopped)

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(cc): NASA Strap yourself into the wayback machine, boys and girls, because we're going back in time five whole years . Life was diff...

Why Don't More Teachers Practice Proper Formative Assessment?

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Research that fails to impact practice is a problem in any arena, and education is no exception. Teachers have many reasons for not impleme...

Boulder Valley Students "Earn" Zeros on Mis-administered CSAP

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According to a story in Boulder's Daily Camera this afternoon: "Sixty-seven students at Superior's Eldorado K-8 School will ...

Do Online Gradebooks Compromise Our Teaching?

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Aaron Eyler recently raised the question of online gradebooks on his blog. While Aaron's concerns centered more on "what does a gr...

Looking ahead to PhD: Focus and Vision

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As the first of my classmates were congratulating me on my PhD acceptance, the inevitable question came: "So what do you want to study?...

Competition

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A new semester has begun and with it comes new readings. For my Assessment in Math and Science class we read two seminal articles in assessm...

Cases in the Ethics of Grading: Jodi Warren and Mr. Kennedy

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The following is my fourth and final (as far as I know) in a series of hypothetical cases meant to raise questions about grading practices. ...

Cases in the Ethics of Grading: Mrs. Lemon and Troy Mann

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The following is my third in a series of hypothetical cases meant to raise questions about grading practices. I'd like to recognize Kenn...

Cases in the Ethics of Grading: Mr. Green and Tracked Classes

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The following is my second in a series of hypothetical cases meant to raise questions about grading practices. I'd like to recognize Ken...

Cases in the Ethics of Grading: Dr. Jones and Tara Hightower

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The following is a hypothetical case meant to raise questions about grading practices. I'd like to recognize Kenneth Strike and Jonas So...

Grading and Teacher Autonomy

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I've known some teachers that probably wish they had the freedoms teachers enjoyed in the one-room schoolhouse days, but in the modern c...

"Grades...Are a Fantasy"

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Chances are, if you're a teacher, you are solely responsible for assigning grades to your students. Rarely is it a pleasant process. You...