Essay Feedback Grades 
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
MAY 10, 2016
At the start of this year, I wrote a blog titled “ Grading for Mastery and Redesigning My Gradebook ,” which detailed my desire to rethink assessment in my classroom. I was tired of students always asking me about points and grades, instead of asking me about how they could improve their skills.
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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.
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.
Catlin Tucker
APRIL 17, 2017
Since January, I have not brought a single stack of digital papers home to grade! Students honed their research skills, organized their information, watched flipped videos on how to complete various aspects of the paper, like citing properly, and they received detailed feedback from me the entire way through! It’s been amazing!
Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
You can allow them to write an argumentative essay, 2) prepare and engage in a live debate with a classmate, or 3) record an argumentative speech. It takes time to articulate what each level looks like; however, the benefit of this approach is that you do not need to write clarifying feedback.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
You have good intentions about giving feedback that is timely and purposeful for your students or teachers. Technology presents a unique opportunity to allows students access to your feedback in effective, efficient ways, following several steps. Peer feedback works using this method, too. Peer feedback.
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