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Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 12, 2017
Over the last two years, I’ve moved further and further away from traditional grading. I’ve blogged about grading for mastery of skills instead of the accumulation of points and ditching my traditional grade book in favor of an ongoing assessment document. Grade Interviews. They begin with a claim.
eSchool News
MAY 8, 2025
In 2024, both Oklahoma and Wisconsin lowered what it means for students to be proficient in grade-level content. Students who would have been performing below standards and assigned intervention support are now being told they are passing. Minnesota, Florida, and North Carolina are rolling back high school math or English requirements.
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Edsurge
JULY 21, 2022
Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? Do I grade a student lower if she/he isn't able to write a song or create some kind of representative artistic element? What do I do?
eSchool News
MARCH 9, 2023
According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping up in the news these days. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work?
Catlin Tucker
JUNE 3, 2015
As another school year comes to a close, many of us are designing our end of the year assessments or knee deep grading them. The final assessment does not have to be a pen and paper or scantron exam. For those still in the planning stages of their end of the year assessments, I want to encourage you to think outside of the box.
Faculty Focus
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
To remediate the exam preparation study skills that beginning (and other) students are missing, most of us respond by telling students about those skills that make for good exam performance. A first-year seminar provides a perfect structure for this assignment, but it could be used in a variety of courses. All rights reserved.
Edsurge
MAY 9, 2023
And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright student in a calculus class Talbert was teaching bombed the first exam. The same thing happened on the second exam, and now the student had no way to do any better in the class than a C.
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