Assignments Grades Writing 
Catlin Tucker
DECEMBER 28, 2017
This year I have posted several blogs about grading and assessment. I encouraged teachers to stop taking grading home for two simple reasons: Grading in isolation robs us of the opportunity to have conversations with students as we assess their work and, ultimately, makes feedback one-sided and less effective.
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.
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Catlin Tucker
MAY 23, 2017
For the last two years, I’ve been moving farther away from conventional grades. I used to grade everything and dump hundreds of points into my digital gradebook over the course of a semester. When grades were due, my gradebook spit out a percentage for each student and that was the grade he/she received.
Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 24, 2015
For the last two years, I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the traditional approach to assessing students and reporting grades. This year I decided to overhaul my gradebook and assess students based on their mastery of particular skills, also referred to as standards-based grading. Don’t Grade Everything.
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
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Ninth-grade English was a paradox for me—both the best and worst year for helping me learn to write. Every month, my Advanced English teacher, Mr. Johnson, assigned our class one of the classics of English literature and expected us to demonstrate what we had learned with an accompanying essay.
Catlin Tucker
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair. How does using rubrics benefit students?
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