On Grades and Grading: Supporting Student Learning through a More Transparent and Purposeful Use of Grades
Too often teachers and schools operate with grading systems that are vestiges of an antiquated educational model with little fresh thinking as to how grades affect student learning. In On Grades and Grading, Timothy Quinn addresses this problem head on, offering an in-depth and nuanced analysis of the purposes grades can serve, as well as their impact on student learning. Quinn takes a hard look at the three pedagogical purposes for grades – providing data about students, motivating students, and providing students with feedback on their work. He then goes on to address a number of specific and, at times, controversial grading related issues, including grade inflation, grading collaborative work, grading and failure, the grading of behaviors and dispositions, and the use of technology in grading. Educators will find both concrete strategies for improving their grading systems and policies and, perhaps most importantly, a rich resource for improving student learning. Ultimately, Quinn hopes to create a world in which students, parents, and teachers all pay more attention to learning and less to grades themselves.
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On Grades and Grading: Supporting Student Learning through a More Transparent and Purposeful Use of Grades
Too often teachers and schools operate with grading systems that are vestiges of an antiquated educational model with little fresh thinking as to how grades affect student learning. In On Grades and Grading, Timothy Quinn addresses this problem head on, offering an in-depth and nuanced analysis of the purposes grades can serve, as well as their impact on student learning. Quinn takes a hard look at the three pedagogical purposes for grades – providing data about students, motivating students, and providing students with feedback on their work. He then goes on to address a number of specific and, at times, controversial grading related issues, including grade inflation, grading collaborative work, grading and failure, the grading of behaviors and dispositions, and the use of technology in grading. Educators will find both concrete strategies for improving their grading systems and policies and, perhaps most importantly, a rich resource for improving student learning. Ultimately, Quinn hopes to create a world in which students, parents, and teachers all pay more attention to learning and less to grades themselves.
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On Grades and Grading: Supporting Student Learning through a More Transparent and Purposeful Use of Grades

On Grades and Grading: Supporting Student Learning through a More Transparent and Purposeful Use of Grades

by Timothy Quinn
On Grades and Grading: Supporting Student Learning through a More Transparent and Purposeful Use of Grades

On Grades and Grading: Supporting Student Learning through a More Transparent and Purposeful Use of Grades

by Timothy Quinn

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Too often teachers and schools operate with grading systems that are vestiges of an antiquated educational model with little fresh thinking as to how grades affect student learning. In On Grades and Grading, Timothy Quinn addresses this problem head on, offering an in-depth and nuanced analysis of the purposes grades can serve, as well as their impact on student learning. Quinn takes a hard look at the three pedagogical purposes for grades – providing data about students, motivating students, and providing students with feedback on their work. He then goes on to address a number of specific and, at times, controversial grading related issues, including grade inflation, grading collaborative work, grading and failure, the grading of behaviors and dispositions, and the use of technology in grading. Educators will find both concrete strategies for improving their grading systems and policies and, perhaps most importantly, a rich resource for improving student learning. Ultimately, Quinn hopes to create a world in which students, parents, and teachers all pay more attention to learning and less to grades themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781610489126
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/19/2013
Pages: 140
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Timothy Quinn holds a B.A. from Amherst College, an Ed.M. from Harvard University, and is currently a candidate for an M.A. from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. Timothy has taught English and Moral Philosophy at a range of independent and international schools, most recently Westminster School (Simsbury, CT) and the University School of Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI), where he is currently the Assistant Head of Upper School.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Grades – Definitions and Purposes
  1. Grades Defined
  2. The Pedagogical Purposes of Grades
Part 2: Issues in Grading
  1. Grade Inflation
  2. The Forms Grades Take: Numbers vs. Letters
  3. Determining Summative Grades
  4. Grading and Failure: Retakes and Rewrites
  5. Grading Behaviors and Dispositions
  6. Grading Collaborative Work
  7. Self-Assessment and Self-Grading
  8. Technology and the Grading Process
  9. The Issue of Inconsistency
  10. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Rubrics
  11. How to Report Grades
Part 3: Conclusion
  1. Shifting the Focus from Grades to Learning

12 Steps to Improving Your Grading System
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Author
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