grading and marking (students)

"This practical, engaging guide explores how student-centered assessment not only improves student engagement and achievement but also ensures that assessment is accurate, meaningful, and fair"--Provided by publisher.

"A teacher's day begins well before students arrive at school and ends long after they have left for the day. A Day with a Teacher introduces young readers to the behind-the-scenes aspects of a community member they witness in action regularly. In age-appropriate language, A Day with a Teacher describes how teachers use evidence-based practices to connect with students and help them to learn and grow. Readers will come away with an understanding of how teachers design lessons, why they grade assignments, and how they use technology to prepare students for college and careers"--.

Provides research-based step-by-step guidance for using assessment effectively, covering the setting of learning targets, design of assessment tasks, creation of scoring guides, tracking and analysis of data, and use of feedback.

Fifth-grade Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control.

Fifth-grade Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control.

Although Mia feels fairly satisfied with her life, she worries about who should attend parent-teacher night and her failing grade in Spanish.

Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control.

"[Westerberg's] aim is to provide the reader with a concrete, detailed, and practical blueprint for transitioning towards standards-based grading ... The approach to best practices in assessment and grading put forth in this book allows a school or district to choose which destination or destinations along a progressive continuum or options it wants to move forward, and at what pace"--pages 2-3.

Keshwan uses his computer skills to make money by changing grades for cash, but Neecy wants to earn her good grades.

Mia is still getting used to having her new stepdad and stepbrother around when she begins to struggle with writing in her Spanish class, and since her family, who speaks Spanish, is willing to help, Mia learns that she is lucky to have three parents.