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On grades and grading : supporting student learning through a more transparent and purposeful use of grades / Timothy Quinn.

By: Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2013Description: xiv, 123 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781610489119
  • 9781610489126
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.27/2 23
LOC classification:
  • LB3051 .Q57 2013
Contents:
Grades defined -- The pedagogical purposes of grades -- Grade inflation -- The forms grades take: numbers vs. letters -- Determining summative grades -- Grading and failure: retakes and rewrites -- Grading behaviors and dispositions -- Grading collaborative work -- Self-assessment and self-grading -- Technology and the grading process -- The issue of inconsistency -- The advantages and disadvantages of rubrics -- How to report grades -- Shifting the focus from grades to learning.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Grades defined -- The pedagogical purposes of grades -- Grade inflation -- The forms grades take: numbers vs. letters -- Determining summative grades -- Grading and failure: retakes and rewrites -- Grading behaviors and dispositions -- Grading collaborative work -- Self-assessment and self-grading -- Technology and the grading process -- The issue of inconsistency -- The advantages and disadvantages of rubrics -- How to report grades -- Shifting the focus from grades to learning.

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