Author Description

<p>Challenge traditional grading practices and adopt a new, more effective grading model for students, which 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.</p> <p>Benefits</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</p> <p>About the Author</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>1 Preparation</p> <p>2 Incubation</p> <p>3 Insight</p> <p>4 Evaluation</p> <p>5 Elaboration</p> <p>Epilogue</p> <p>References and Resources</p> <p>Index</p>