17 May Why Stakeholder Surveys?
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Know your stakeholders: How crucial data from stakeholders can improve assessment and grading reform....
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14 May Are Your Grading Policies Legally Sound?
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Virtual learning has given parents a much closer look into the classroom. Parents in many school communities over the past year have had direct, online access into their child’s day-to-day learning with the chance to monitor teachers’ lessons and to provide home support with assignments....
31 May Assessment & Grading in the Midst of a Pandemic
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The coronavirus pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to educators throughout the world. Schools have had to change entire instructional programs in widely varied contexts with inequitable access to technology and other vital resources. School closures and requirements for social isolation have created untold hardships for...
30 May Should We Consider Pass/Fail Grading?
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With schools around the world moving to online instruction in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, questions have been raised about adopting pass/fail grading. Advocates contend this would be fairer to students and teachers who must deal with unprecedented changes in both teaching and learning....
29 May Get Set, Go!
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Guskey, T. R. (2020). Get Set, Go! Creating Successful Grading and Reporting Systems. Bloomington, IL: Solution Tree....
12 Dec How Traditional Grading Contributes to Student Inequalities…and How to Fix It
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Grades have long been identified by those in the measurement community as prime examples of unreliable measurement (Brookhart, 1994; Stiggins, Frisbie, & Griswold, 1989). What one teacher considers in calculating students’ grades may differ greatly from another teacher (Guskey & Link, 2019; McMillan, 2001; McMillan, Myran,...
28 Jun Grades versus Comments: What Does the Research Really Tell Us?
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In articles and presentations on student feedback, educators are admonished today to use No grades, comments only! Grades, they are told, make students complacent and unmotivated. Comments, however, are said to improve motivation and enhance achievement....
14 Jun Chicago Coaching Center Podcast
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Chicago Coaching Center Podcast (4/17/2019): Listen to Tom Guskey talk about the role of assessment and grading, and how it intersects with professional learning and coaching....