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Author:Susan M. Brookhart Publisher:Prentice Hall Studio:Prentice Hall Manufacturer:Prentice Hall Label:Prentice Hall Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Paperback Edition: 2 Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 224 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8 Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.5
Product Description Whatever his/her feeling about grades, nearly every teacher must give them. That's the rationale behind this straightforward text--helping prospective teachers to understand grading and learn to do it well. Grading, Second Edition continues to be the resource staying true to its original intent--to help current and future teachers begin to see themselves as competent graders. The text focuses on explaining how grades function in schools and schooling, and on developing skills in grading work and creating report cards. Based on current research and informed by the author's experience, the text is replete with detailed explanations, stories and illustrations, student work samples, sample report cards and other school artifacts, and references for further study. Readers will be introduced to the historical, social, legal, and psychological contexts of grading, and will obtain the necessary content and practice on how to grade individual units of student work and techniques for turning discrete grades into report-card marks.Every major section of the book concludes with a more comprehensive assignment that will help readers assess their knowledge of the major concepts and applications recently studied. Every chapter ends with a set of questions or exercises that serve as a self-assessment tools and a means to practice skill development. Organized into three major parts (Understanding Grading, Integrating Assessment and Instruction, and Combining Grades Into Marks for Report Cards), with the added encouragement of self-reflection at the onset and throughout, Grading, Second Edition fully prepares current teachers and those working toward that goal to refine and perfect a simple, yet compelling function in the process of school, grading. Grading, Second Edition is a perfect supplement for pre-service and current teachers, and for use in General K--12 Methods courses and courses in Tests and Measurements.
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