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What Academic Grades Mean To Seventh Grade Students, Margo Joan Moore
What Academic Grades Mean To Seventh Grade Students, Margo Joan Moore
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This study explores how seventh grade students in an urban school district make meaning for their teacher-assigned report card grades. A great deal of research has been done on report card grades from the perspective of teachers and administrators, but few studies have examined what teacher-assigned grades mean to middle school students. This qualitative study attempts to develop an understanding of the meanings attributed to teacher-assigned grades by 56 seventh grade English Language Arts (ELA) students in an urban middle school in Massachusetts.
Three major research questions were addressed: 1) How do 56 seventh-grade English Language Arts students in an …