grading and marking (students)

Provides information about and strategies for reporting academic strengths and weaknesses with standards-based grading.

Presents a rationale for differentiated assessment and grading, discusses mastery, and provides guidance, ideas, and examples from middle and high school classrooms, as well as a guide for teacher leaders on supporting colleagues beginning differentiated assessment and grading.

A guide to help teachers create their own no grades classroom. Describes problems associated with typical student assessment, creative solutions, practical implementation steps, and a plan to maximize student learning.

Offers teachers a method of grading that is accurate, fair, specific, and timely, identifying the four characteristics of effective feedback, looking at the debate over grading, and including time-saving strategies, as well as tips on leading change in grading practices and systems.

"A collection of ... 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"--Provided by publisher.

"Examines and debunks traditional practices and policies of grading in K-12 schools"--Back cover.

Presents a framework from which to explore the process of developing grading and reporting systems, identifying the major issues that must be confronted when trying to improve grading and reporting practices and policies, looking at various methods, examining model reporting forms, and discussing special needs grading, and other issues.