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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hargis, Charles H.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Springfield, Ill., U.S.A. : C.C. Thomas, ©2003.
Édition:2nd ed.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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