How to Use Grading to Improve Learning

Grades are imperfect, shorthand answers to “What did students learn, and how well?” In How to Use Grading to Improve Learning, best-selling author Susan M. Brookhart guides educators at all levels in figuring out how to produce grades—for single assignments and report cards—that accurately communicate students’ achievement of learning goals.

Brookhart explores topics that are fundamental to effective grading and learning practices:

• Acknowledging that all students can learn
• Supporting and...