Class rank weighs down true learning. Teaching and grading schemes that work to select the most talented students often fail to benefit all students and to notice promising students....
Kentucky Develops Standards-Based Report Cards. A group of teachers, school leaders, and education researchers create report cards that link course grades to student progress on mastering state standards...
Most teachers base students’ grades on more than one factor. The difficulty is figuring out how to weight and combine the different pieces that go into the final mark. Mr. Guskey suggests a system that not only avoids those problems but gives a better overall...
Some schools have abolished this traditional honor for the top senior....
Grading and reporting are foundational elements in nearly every educational system. Grading represents teachers’ evaluations — formative or summative — of students’ performance. Reporting is how the results of those evaluations are communicated to students, par- ents, or others....
This study examines the enduring problem of inconsistent K-12 grading practices by exploring the relationship between teachers’ perceptions of various grading practices, such as factoring student behavior in academic grades, as related to grade level, district locale, and training....
It's time to abandon grading scales that distort the accuracy, objectivity, and reliability of students' grades....
As traditional reporting systems based on letter grades are replaced by standards-based reporting systems, parents are often left wondering how their child is doing in school. Mr. Guskey offers some suggestions for overcoming this communication challenge....
Although computerized grading programs have advantages, teachers' judgment has been shown to be more reliable....
The grades teachers use to describe students’ performance in school and record on report cards have long been identified by the measurement community as prime examples of unreliable measurement (Brookhart, 1993; Stiggins, Frisbie, & Griswold, 1989). Numerous studies show teachers vary widely...