Grades and grading practices: obstacles to improving education and to helping at-risk students
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1. Verfasser: Hargis, Charles H. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Springfield, Ill., U.S.A. C.C. Thomas ©2003
Ausgabe:2nd ed
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Beschreibung: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 teachers, instructors, curriculum persons, and administrators who desire to implement cooperative thinking and problem-solving skills into the existing grading practices, this book calls attention to the obstacles that have been created. While poor grades may nudge some students to better performance, th
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 123 pages)
ISBN:0398084297
9780398084295

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