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On Grades and Grading
Supporting Student Learning through a More Transparent and Purposeful Use of Grades
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2013
Summary
Too often teachers and schools operate with grading systems that are vestiges of an antiquated educational model with little fresh thinking as to how grades affect student learning. In On Grades and Grading, Timothy Quinn addresses this problem head on, offering an in-depth and nuanced analysis of the purposes grades can serve, as well as their impact on student learning. Quinn takes a hard look at the three pedagogical purposes for grades – providing data about students, motivating students, and providing students with feedback on their work. He then goes on to address a number of specific and, at times, controversial grading related issues, including grade inflation, grading collaborative work, grading and failure, the grading of behaviors and dispositions, and the use of technology in grading. Educators will find both concrete strategies for improving their grading systems and policies and, perhaps most importantly, a rich resource for improving student learning. Ultimately, Quinn hopes to create a world in which students, parents, and teachers all pay more attention to learning and less to grades themselves.
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Edition
1/2013
Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-61048-912-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-61048-913-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
123
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1: Grades Defined No access
Chapter 2: The Pedagogical Purposes of Grades No access
Chapter 3: Grade Inflation No access
Chapter 4: The Forms Grades Take: Numbers versus Letters No access
Chapter 5: Determining Summative Grades No access
Chapter 6: Grading and Failure No access
Chapter 7: Grading Behaviors and Dispositions No access
Chapter 8: Grading Collaborative Work No access
Chapter 9: Self-Assessment and Self-Grading No access
Chapter 10: Technology and the Grading Process No access
Chapter 11: The Issue of Inconsistency No access
Chapter 12: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Rubrics No access
Chapter 13: How to Report Grades No access
Chapter 14: Shifting the Focus from Grades to Learning No access
Twelve Steps to Improving Your Grading System No access Pages 111 - 112
