Author Description

<p>Challenge traditional grading practices and adopt a new, more effective grading model for students that will close the gaps in student achievement and content mastery. This book provides the pathway for implementing evidence-based grading practices in schools through a straightforward, five-phase creative model: (1) preparation, (2) incubation, (3) insight, (4) evaluation, and (5) elaboration. Readers will follow a hypothetical curriculum team's journey through each phase of this process.<br></p><p>Benefits<br></p><ul> <li>Confront ineffective grading practices and then overcome traditional biases to apply better grading practices. </li> <li>Reflect on the effectiveness of revisions and improve newly revised grading methods. </li> <li>Give students meaningful information about their progress toward learning targets and expectations. </li> <li>Identify the concepts and perspectives to which curriculum team members must commit to successfully adopt evidence-based grading practices. </li> <li>Discover the important relationships between learning targets and grading, feedback and instruction, assessment and grading, and gradebooks and learning. </li></ul><p>Contents<br></p><p>About the Author<br></p><p>Introduction<br></p><p>1 Preparation<br></p><p>2 Incubation<br></p><p>3 Insight<br></p><p>4 Evaluation<br></p><p>5 Elaboration<br></p><p>Epilogue<br></p><p>References and Resources<br></p><p>Index<br></p>