Rethinking Grading: Meaningful Assessment for Standards-Based Learning
By Cathy Vatterott.
Description
Grading systems often reward on-time task completion and penalize disorganization and bad behavior. Despite our best intentions, grades seem to reflect student compliance more than student learning and engagement. In the process, we inadvertently subvert the learning process.After careful research and years of experiences with grading as a teacher and a parent, Cathy Vatterott examines and debunks traditional practices and policies of grading in K 12 schools. She offers a new paradigm for standards-based grading that focuses on student mastery of content and gives concrete examples from ele...
ISBN(s)
1416620494, 9781416620495
