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Making High School Grades Meaningful, Thomas R. Guskey May 2006

Making High School Grades Meaningful, Thomas R. Guskey

Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology Faculty Publications

Most teachers base students' grades on more than one factor. The difficulty is figuring out how to weight and combine the different pieces that go into the final mark. Mr. Guskey suggests a system that not only avoids those problems but gives a better overall picture of a student's performance than the traditional single letter grade.


Computerized Gradebooks And The Myth Of Objectivity, Thomas R. Guskey Jun 2002

Computerized Gradebooks And The Myth Of Objectivity, Thomas R. Guskey

Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology Faculty Publications

Computerized grading programs and electronic gradebooks can be useful tools. But in the end, Mr. Guskey reminds us, teachers must still decide what grade offers the most accurate and fairest description of each student's achievement and level of performance.