grading and marking (education)

Explores how grades affect a student's life, discussing why they are important, what they can and cannot do, how they reveal certain characteristics, and other related topics.

Provides practical tips for teachers on writing assessments of student work, including report cards and longer narratives, covering beginnings and endings, details, and ways to save time when assessing a great number of students, such as in middle or high school.

Analyzes two important factors that affect student learning: formative assessment and grading, explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, track student progress, and assign meaningful grades, and includes detailed examples of applications in classrooms.

Provides information on assessment for educators, defining basic terminology, discussing the pros and cons of standardized tests and alternative assessment measures, and explaining the purposes and functions of standards and benchmarks, how to write rubrics and other forms of alternative assessments, and how to report student progress. Includes samples of rubrics.

Analyzes issues related to classroom assessment in higher education, with advice on how educators can develop effective assessment strategies for their class.

Examines effective reading assessment practices.

Presents practical guidance for teachers on developing effective rubrics that clarify the targets of instruction, provide valid and reliable assessment of student learning, and improve student motivation and achievement; and also includes several sample rubrics.

Offers guidelines designed to help educators better assess their students' acquisition of content knowledge; examines the key processes of learning, teaching, and demonstrating knowledge; and summarizes several strengths and weaknesses of classroom-based performance assessments.