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Description

What’s the best way to ensure that grading policies are fair, accurate, and consistent across classrooms? How can schools transition to a grading system that better reflects what students are actually learning? Author Tim R. Westerberg makes this journey easier by offering a continuum of options, with four “destinations” on the road to improved grading and assessment.
Destination 1 critically examines popular grading mechanisms and explains how they undermine objectivity and instead result in widely divergent grades for comparable work.
Destination 2 invites educators to put assessment and grading into the larger context of a districtwide guaranteed and viable curriculum.
Destination 3 brings parents and others on board with a multiyear implementation plan and community engagement strategies.
Destination 4 involves a total rethinking of the nature and structure of school, leading to individualized education for all students.

Grades:

K-12

Author(s):

Tim R. Westerberg

Publisher:

ASCD

Year:

2016

Pages:

165 pp

Media/Binding:

Softcover

iSBN:

9781416622635