Grades and grading practices : obstacles to improving education and to helping at-risk students /

This second edition of Grades and Grading Practices not only contains updated and refreshed material on the problems caused by our current grading system, it also provides two additional chapters dealing with the present issues on assessment, standards, and social promotion. Designed to assist teach...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hargis, Charles H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Springfield, Ill., U.S.A. : C.C. Thomas, ©2003.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Grading and marking (Students) > United States.
Underachievers > United States.
Classement et notation (Élèves et étudiants) > États-Unis.
Élèves sous-performants > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
Grading and marking (Students)
Underachievers
Docimologie.
Élève à risque.
Notation en éducation.
Réforme pédagogique.
United States
États-Unis.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Overview
  • 2. History of Grades
  • 3. Myths About Grades
  • 4. Normal Variation in Academic Ability
  • 5. The Lock-Step Curriculum
  • 6. The Specialist System
  • 7. Scapegoats
  • 8. Success, Failure, and Achievement
  • 9. Grades as Etiology
  • 10. Grading the Academically Talented
  • 11. Grade-Induced Assessment Problems
  • 12. Curriculum-Based Assessment
  • 13. Alternatives to Grades
  • 14. Instruction without Grades: Noncompetitive and Cooperative Learning
  • 15. Grading Achievement Tests
  • 16. Grading the Curriculum.

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