Catlin Tucker
JULY 2, 2019
In a blog post I wrote titled Ask Yourself, Why Am I Grading This? , I encourage teachers to think about the purpose of the work students are doing and evaluate whether it makes sense for them to invest their time and energy grading that work. How is one teacher supposed to grade all of the work that 150+ students complete?
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.
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Catlin Tucker
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Last year, I began experimenting with standards-based grading and wrote a blog titled “ Grading for Mastery and Redesigning My Gradebook. This summer I read Starr Stackstein’s book Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School. Grades weren’t a surprise.
eSchool News
JULY 23, 2020
And the letter-grade system that schools have been using to evaluate student learning for generations could be supplanted by a mastery-based grading system that gives stakeholders much more insight into what students know. Rethinking the purpose of grades.
eSchool News
APRIL 10, 2025
Here are five powerful resources that can transform how you evaluate student progress. According to a recent study, over 60 percent of educators believe traditional assessments fail to fully measure student understanding. Wakelet: Wakelet is traditionally known as a curation tool, but its versatility makes it an excellent assessment platform.
Faculty Focus
JUNE 1, 2025
I failed to appreciate the value of clear expectations and the inescapable necessity that my students needed to walk out of my class with a grade. For the next four years, I used Kevin Gannons grading contract to implement more structure and Barbara Schapiros third space to reflect on what worked for me and my students.
eSchool News
JULY 22, 2020
Automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems offer a promising approach to relieving the burden of giving formative feedback to students on their writing. eRevise provides automated feedback to improve fifth and sixth grade students’ use of text evidence in their argument writing essays.
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