For me grading and reporting seemed like pretty simple process as long as you were very clear with what you are looking for from your students and if you could eliminate the guesswork as much as possible. I believe in school students and parents should have a good handle on exactly what coming to them when it come to report cards. In school I was one of the lucky few that always felt like I knew what was coming to me because I knew exactly how much work I had put in that term and had a good handle of what I felt like I deserved and it would always surprise me the reactions of some of my classmates when they would see their reports especially the ones that were visibly upset. Cooper goes in depth with ways that these instances can be avoided, first students need to be introduced to the rubrics that will be used to grade culminating activities and also checklists that will help students understand if they are doing good work quality worthy of achieving a level 4 before the hand that work in. A problem I ran into in school was too often there were never examples of what good work looks like for us to reference to make sure we are on the right track, this is where anchors are very helpful for students success. Anchors are examples of what high level work looks like for students to reference, Cooper believes it is essential for students to be given at least 2 anchors to work from to make sure that single anchor isn’t used as a piece of work that the students believe they must copy exactly to achieve a good grade. Another problem that students and parents had was the belief that grades were a symbol of a students skills in a certain subject and the emotions were brought on when a student feels they are good at a certain subject and their grade doesn’t reflect that at all. In the growing success document it is explained how and when report cards are meant to be administered this give me some insight into how I can set up my assessment for learning to be able to accurately explain to parents and students what it is that the student is lacking so that are no surprises when it comes to their reports
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linda radford
11/14/2015 06:57:52 pm
I am glad this chapter and Growing Success provided some insight into the grading and reporting process!
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