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Making High School Grades Meaningful, Thomas R. Guskey
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
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.