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Having Students Go from Proficient to Above Proficient Through Improvements
In my Oral presentations (speech) class, I’m grading their final speeches on how much they have improved from when they originally gave the speech. They have to show me their original speech, the...
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Baby Walking and Improving Student Learning
My grandson is beginning to walk. He takes about ten steps and then falls down. He crawls over to the nearest table/chair and gets up again. He does not get discouraged about failing to walk many...
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Change to Assessment from Grading
Very often teachers use the terms grading and assessment interchangeable. However, they are very different. When we grade, we give a “final” score to something such as a B and an 83. Usually when...
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Making Final State Exam Review into Formative Assessment for Higher Scores
I was talking to a teacher who has been reviewing for the state assessment (New York State Regents) since January. I asked what he has done. He has taken a part of the regents exam and has had...
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What Did I Learn From Giving the Final? What do I Do Differently?
I recently gave my Spanish final. After correcting each part, I put the grades for each part onto the final sheet and totaled up the score to get their final exam score. However, the process for me...
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Grading for Success or Failure
A critical question is whether we, as teachers, focus on grading for success or failure. I think most of us grade for failure. Jaime has done four science labs. In the one in Oct., he got a 20, in Dec,...
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Formative Assessment Class Culture
Formative assessment requires a specific culture in the classroom. For example, I tell my students that my job is to help them constantly improve. I remind them that in this formative assessment class,...
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Why do students’ final grades not reflect their highest achievements?
Many teachers calculate the students’ final grade by having a grading program or spreadsheet average the four quarters and the final. However, this averaged grade does not represent the students’...
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Online Grading For Communicating Students’ Learning Problems and Successes
Administrators want accountability for learning in schools. One way to build greater accountability is for teachers to use online grading programs that give students and their parents access to the...
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Digital Badges: Better Than Grades?
Teachers understand that the grade in a course consists of many different factors such as homework, participation , projects, tests, etc. Blodget observes that sometimes grades reflect attitude,...
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