Raise standards and improve learning for all students through equitable grading
Grading–one of the most important responsibilities of teachers with major implications for students’ academic and life trajectories–is ironically also among the most enigmatic and frequently avoided topics in education. Although most teachers sense that common grading practices are often ineffective, there is limited understanding of how those practices can undermine effective teaching and harm students, particularly those historically underserved. It is long past due to implement grading practices that are more accurate, bias-resistant, and motivational, and which improve student learning, empower teachers, and transform classrooms as a result.
In this newly updated edition of the best-selling Grading for Equity, Joe Feldman provides a valuable resource for anyone invested in grading and its impact on students’ education, mental health, and future opportunities. Offering a research-based alternative to the status quo, this practitioner-friendly guide provides
Extensive revisions that reflect how the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement shifted traditional grading systems
New data from both academic research and classrooms that demonstrate the benefits of equitable grading for all students
Clear approaches to implement equitable grading practices
Updated information on several equitable grading practices, including proficiency scales
A new concluding chapter that explores implementing equitable grading system-wide
With a down-to-earth style driven by the author’s own curiosity as a teacher, principal, district administrator, and university instructor, this book will invite and challenge you to think about how more equitable grading, when implemented effectively, creates a more rigorous, humane, and positive school experience for all.
Описание: What`s the best way to ensure that grading policies are fair, accurate, and consistent? How can schools transition to a grading system that better reflects what students are actually learning? Tim Westerberg makes this journey easier by offering a continuum of options, with four ""destinations"" on the road to improved grading and assessment.
An insightful look at a major fault in higher education
Making Sense of College Grades: Why the Grading System Does Not Work and What Can be Done About It explores the phenomenon of grading in U.S. higher education, and exposes the systemic faults and cultural baggage that ultimately work against education. From the nation's first recorded grade point average through current practices and policies, this detailed exploration of grades as both motivators and measures of success offers unique insight into today's higher education standards.
If you ever have to stifle a yawn while teaching the same old thing in the same old ways, just imagine how your students feel. If you're bored, they are too
No matter how great a teacher you are, there will be days when you are short on time, resources, energy, or ideas. When your lesson plan simply says, "See Page 47" (Yawn ), you know it's time to shake things up with Boredom Busters
Educator Katie Powell packs a wealth of lesson twists, games, and activities into Boredom Busters. The Worksheet Busters, Lecture Busters, and Homework Busters she shares work for all grade levels to create engaging, memorable, meaningful learning experiences for your students.
Imagine your students' response when you tell them to fold their worksheet into a paper airplane, answer questions on colorful balls, or unfurl a giant board game across the floor.
Curious?
Your students will be too. And they'll want to come back for more
"Love, love, love this book by Katie Powell As someone who uses brain research as the foundation of all I do, I can tell you that Katie hits the nail on the head with this one." --LaVonna Roth, creator and founder of Ignite Your S.H.I.N.E.(R)
"Boredom Busters is literally a treasure trove of ideas and activities to help any teacher stay engaged with students, even when the coffee maker is on the fritz " --Marlena Gross-Taylor, founder of @EduGladiators, author, and speaker
"Boredom Busters is a creative masterpiece " --Phyllis Fagell, author of Middle School Matters and Washington Post contributor
"Boredom Busters is a dynamic playbook of teaching strategies that can add life, rigor, and relevance to any lesson plan with minimal prep and zero added cost." --John Meehan, author of EDrenaline Rush
Название: De-testing and de-grading schools ISBN: 1433122405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433122408 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 21542.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This edited volume brings together a collection of essays that confronts the failure of testing and grading and then offers practical and detailed examinations of implementing at the macro and micro levels of education teaching and learning free of the weight of testing and grading.
Improve your grading and feedback practices to benefit your students and their writing development. This practical guide models a research-based, linguistically inclusive approach to grading writing so that you can incorporate inclusive assessment and feedback into your everyday practice. A linguistically inclusive grading approach honours Black linguistic justice, facilitates students' use of feedback, and guides students to make rhetorical linguistic choices. Additionally, students will develop skills for responding to organization, word choice, grammar, and mechanics rooted in African American English and other language varieties. Example comments and practices are included throughout the book to assist instructors, including those constrained by mandated grade weighting or rubrics that preclude adopting more extensive changes. A Linguistically Inclusive Approach to Grading Writing will benefit writing instructors across contexts, including teaching online, teaching high-achieving students, and using contract grading.
Book Features:
A linguistically inclusive approach to grading and offering feedback on language variation in college-level writing.
Explanations, with examples, for how to use a linguistically inclusive grading approach across contexts and instructor goals.
Concrete tools and adaptable models for responding to student writing for both formative and summative assessment, even when your students are using ChatGPT.
An approach that not only prevents grading bias, but also effectively guides students to make their own rhetorical choices.
Summary lists of recommended practices and questions for instructors to self-assess their instruction.
A companion suite of resources, Students' Right to Their Own Writing, is available at srtow.org.
Описание: A century of education and education reform, along with more than three decades of high-stakes testing and accountability, reveals a disturbing paradox: education has a steadfast commitment to testing and grading. This commitment persists despite ample research, theory, and philosophy revealing the corrosive consequences of both testing and grading in an education system designed to support human agency and democratic principles. This revised edited volume brings together a collection of updated and new essays that confronts the failure of testing and grading. The book explores the historical failure of testing and grading; the theoretical and philosophical arguments against testing and grading; the negative influence of tests and grades on social justice, race, class, and gender; and the role that they play in perpetuating a deficit perspective of children. The chapters fall under two broad sections. Part I, Degrading Learning, Detesting Education: The Failure of High-Stake Accountability in Education, includes essays on the historical, theoretical, and philosophical arguments against testing and grading. Part II, De-Grading and De-Testing in a Time of High-Stakes Education Reform, presents practical experiments in de-testing and de-grading classrooms for authentic learning experiences.
Автор: Bratcher Название: Evaluating Children`s Writing ISBN: 1138135011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138135017 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Introduces statement from preface about application activities for a wide range of writing evaluation strategies elementary classroom teachers can use to determine a grade. Txtbk for undergrad. & graduate elementary language arts&writing methods courses
Improve your grading and feedback practices to benefit your students and their writing development. This practical guide models a research-based, linguistically inclusive approach to grading writing so that you can incorporate inclusive assessment and feedback into your everyday practice. A linguistically inclusive grading approach honours Black linguistic justice, facilitates students' use of feedback, and guides students to make rhetorical linguistic choices. Additionally, students will develop skills for responding to organization, word choice, grammar, and mechanics rooted in African American English and other language varieties. Example comments and practices are included throughout the book to assist instructors, including those constrained by mandated grade weighting or rubrics that preclude adopting more extensive changes. A Linguistically Inclusive Approach to Grading Writing will benefit writing instructors across contexts, including teaching online, teaching high-achieving students, and using contract grading.
Book Features:
A linguistically inclusive approach to grading and offering feedback on language variation in college-level writing.
Explanations, with examples, for how to use a linguistically inclusive grading approach across contexts and instructor goals.
Concrete tools and adaptable models for responding to student writing for both formative and summative assessment, even when your students are using ChatGPT.
An approach that not only prevents grading bias, but also effectively guides students to make their own rhetorical choices.
Summary lists of recommended practices and questions for instructors to self-assess their instruction.
A companion suite of resources, Students' Right to Their Own Writing, is available at srtow.org.
Are you satisfied with your current and traditional grading system? Does it accurately reflect your students' learning and progress? Can it be gamed? Does it lead to grade-grubbing and friction with your students?
The authors of this book – two professors of mathematics with input from colleagues across disciplines and institutions – offer readers a fundamentally more effective and authentic approach to grading that they have implemented for over a decade. Recognizing that traditional grading penalizes students in the learning process by depriving them of the formative feedback that is fundamental to improvement, the authors offer alternative strategies that encourage revision and growth.
Alternative grading is concerned with students' eventual level of understanding. This leads to big changes: Students take time to review past failures and learn from them. Conversations shift from "why did I lose a point for this" to productive discussions of content and process.
Alternative grading can be used successfully at any level, in any situation, and any discipline, in classes that range from seminars to large multi-section lectures.
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to alternative grading, beginning with a framework and rationale for implementation and evidence of its effectiveness. The heart of the book includes detailed examples – including variations on Standards-Based Grading, Specifications Grading, and ungrading -- of how alternative grading practices are used in all kinds of classroom environments, disciplines and institutions with a focus on first-hand accounts by faculty who share their practices and experience. The book includes a workbook chapter that takes readers through a step-by-step process for building a prototype of their own alternatively graded class and ends with concrete, practical, time-tested advice for new practitioners.
The underlying principles of alternative grading involve
Evaluating student work using clearly defined and context-appropriate content standards.
Giving students helpful, actionable feedback.
Summarizing the feedback with marks that indicate progress rather than arbitrary numbers.
Allowing students to revise without penalty, using the feedback they receive, until the standards are met or exceeded.
This book is intended for faculty interested in exploring alternative forms of learning assessment as well as those currently using alternative grading systems who are looking for ideas and options to refine practice.
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