A Repair Kit for Grading

A Repair Kit for Grading

Author: Ken O'Connor

Publisher: First Educational Resources, LLC

Published: 2022-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781733239073

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Communicating about student achievement requires CALM grades - grades that are consistent, accurate, learning-focused and meaningful. To meet these four conditions, educators need to ask several essential questions: 1. To what extent am I confident that students in my school/district receive grades that are consistent, accurate, learning-focused, and meaningful? 2. To what extent am I confident that the grades I determine for my students accurately reflect my school/district's published learning goals and performance standards? 3. To what extent am I confident that what I do in grading is aligned with and contributes to my school/district's mission, vision and goals? If the answers are any less than extremely confident, educators need this revised third edition of A Repair Kit for Grading; 15 Fixes for Broken Grades because it has been extensively revised to provide the fixes to enable educators to move to that high level of confidence. There are many changes in this edition that reflect the new understandings that have occurred in the eleven-plus years since the second edition was written and hopefully make the ideas clearer and more helpful. The major changes in the third edition are as follows: o The fixes have been reworded so that they start with action verbs indicating what should be done (i.e., do first, don't second); o The fixes have all been rewritten to some extent with major revisions to fixes 1, 4, 7 and 8. o All new Educator Vignettes and policy/procedure examples for each fix; o The references have been updated so that they are mostly from 2016 or later.


A Repair Kit for Grading

A Repair Kit for Grading

Author: Ken O'Connor

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780132488631

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Describes fifteen strategies for grading practices that recognize student learning and achievement and are consistent, accurate, and aligned with school or district standards.


A Repair Kit for Grading

A Repair Kit for Grading

Author: Dr Ken O'Connor

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780134630557

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" Communicating about student achievement requires accurate, consistent and meaningful grades. " Educators interested in examining and improving grading practices should ask the following questions: Am I confident that students in my classroom receive consistent, accurate and meaningful grades that support learning? Am I confident that the grades I assign students accurately reflect my school or district s published performance standardsanddesiredlearning outcomes? In many schools, the answers to these questions often range from "not very" to "not at all." When that s the case, grades are "broken" and teachers and schools need a "repair kit" to fix them. "A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades, 2/e "gives teachers and administrators 15 ways to make the necessary repairs. In "Seven Strategies of Assessment Learning," author Jan Chappuis gives K to 12 classroom teachers an incisive look at seven practical strategies structured around three essential questions Where am I going? Where am I now? and How can I close the gap? Complete with research-based recommendations about assessment practices for improving student achievement, the book is sequenced to help teachers easily weave formative assessment practices into daily teaching and assessment activities at all levels. After introducing the strategies and the research base for formative assessment practices, the remaining chapters explain each strategy in detail, provide a research-based rationale for using the strategy, describe how the strategy can be applied in contexts ranging from kindergarten through high school in a range of subject areas, and offer instructions for carrying out core procedures and suggestions for adaptations. The new features new, more recent research, extended examples of the strategies, and improved features that make the text easier to use for collaborative learning. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded video, Discussion Questions, Reflection Journal, and Defining Assessments. 0134630556 / 9780134630557 Repair Kit for Grading, A: Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grades with DVD & Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning with Video Analysis Tool -- Access Card Package 2/e Package consists of: 0132488639 / 9780132488631 Repair Kit for Grading, A: Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grades with DVD 2/e 0133366448 / 9780133366440 Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning 2/e 0134543947 / 9780134543949 Video Analysis Tool for Classroom Assessment -- Standalone Access Card 1/e "


How to Grade for Learning

How to Grade for Learning

Author: Ken O'Connor

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2017-10-04

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 1506334180

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Implement standards-based grading practices that help students succeed! Classroom assessment methods should help students develop to their full potential, but meshing traditional grading practices with students’ achievement on standards has been difficult. Making lasting changes to grading practices requires both knowledge and willpower. Discover eight guidelines for good grading, recommendations for practical applications, and suggestions for implementing new grading practices as well as: ? The why’s and the how-to’s of implementing standards-based grading practices ? Tips from 48 nationally and internationally known authors and consultants ? Additional information on utilizing level scores rather than percentages ? Reflective exercises ? Techniques for managing grading more efficiently


The School Leader's Guide to Grading

The School Leader's Guide to Grading

Author: Ken O'Connor

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2012-12-04

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1935542516

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Ensure your school’s grading procedures are supportive of learning, accurate, meaningful, and consistent. Discover how the “seven essential Ps” can improve your effectiveness in supporting assessment and communicating student achievement. You will also learn how to avoid inaccurate grades caused by penalties for lateness or academic dishonesty; extra credit; group rather than individual work; and marking down for attendance.


The Grade Cleanse

The Grade Cleanse

Author: Danny Hill

Publisher: Power of ICU

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 0985696176

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Grade Cleanse, presents a six-step process to uncover what lies within traditional grading practices so that you can reflect, make changes, and improve! This unique approach allows you to move at your own pace. Each "grade cleanse" is accompanied by a series of challenges and "how-to" baby steps. Grading can be a meaningful process that supports reflection and growth. Cleansed grades are healthy grades, and healthy grades support learning!


Grading for Equity

Grading for Equity

Author: Joe Feldman

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1506391591

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"Joe Feldman shows us how we can use grading to help students become the leaders of their own learning and lift the veil on how to succeed. . . . This must-have book will help teachers learn to implement improved, equity-focused grading for impact." —Zaretta Hammond, Author of Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain Crack open the grading conversation Here at last—and none too soon—is a resource that delivers the research base, tools, and courage to tackle one of the most challenging and emotionally charged conversations in today’s schools: our inconsistent grading practices and the ways they can inadvertently perpetuate the achievement and opportunity gaps among our students. With Grading for Equity, Joe Feldman cuts to the core of the conversation, revealing how grading practices that are accurate, bias-resistant, and motivational will improve learning, minimize grade inflation, reduce failure rates, and become a lever for creating stronger teacher-student relationships and more caring classrooms. Essential reading for schoolwide and individual book study or for student advocates, Grading for Equity provides A critical historical backdrop, describing how our inherited system of grading was originally set up as a sorting mechanism to provide or deny opportunity, control students, and endorse a "fixed mindset" about students’ academic potential—practices that are still in place a century later A summary of the research on motivation and equitable teaching and learning, establishing a rock-solid foundation and a "true north" orientation toward equitable grading practices Specific grading practices that are more equitable, along with teacher examples, strategies to solve common hiccups and concerns, and evidence of effectiveness Reflection tools for facilitating individual or group engagement and understanding As Joe writes, "Grading practices are a mirror not just for students, but for us as their teachers." Each one of us should start by asking, "What do my grading practices say about who I am and what I believe?" Then, let’s make the choice to do things differently . . . with Grading for Equity as a dog-eared reference.


Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grades

Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grades

Author: Ken O'Connor

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 9780132845564

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This new edition gives readers and administrators 15 ways to make needed repairs. Fixes are organized around these four key categories: Fixes for Practices That Distort Achievement, Fixes for Low-Quality or Poorly Organized Evidence, Fixes for Inappropriate Grade Calculation, and Fixes to Support Learning. This resource delivers one clear message. Grades are artifacts of learning and students need to receive grades that reflect what they've actually learned. This book advocates the implementation of grading systems based strictly on student achievement--and shows educators how to create them.