THE MOST PRACTICAL STUFF ABOUT GRADING:
A Beginner's
Guide to Figuring Your Grades - Scroll down this page at the
Teachers Helping Teachers website to find some grading tips. Especially
helpful for beginners.
Grading Teachers' Grading Policies
-- Teachers can learn a lot from this article written to help principals
judge the quality of grading practices in their schools.
Do Our Grading Systems Contribute
To "Dumbing Down"?
A
Review of Grading Software - At the Education World website.
This article, written in 2000, lists most of the popular software available
for Windows and Mac at that time.
NewGradeBook
-- A standards-based grading system. Software and information.
1st Class Gradebook
-- A popular software program for Windows.
GradeKeeper -- commercial
software.
GradePoint --
commercial software.
GradeStar -- shareware
software.
Windows
Demo Grading Software -- A page with several software products
for Windows.
Mac Demo
Grading Software -- A page with several software products for the
Macintosh
Grading software with Internet posting
capacity -- from ThinkWave.
TEACHERS TALK ABOUT GRADING:
Failing Grades for Late Assignments:
Teaching Responsibility or Giving Permission to Fail?
Let's worry more about assessing students
and less about grading them
A Teacher Researches a
Middle School's Grading Practices
Are My Classroom Standards High Enough?
Looking beneath the surface:
Teacher collaboration through the lens of grading practices
(Don't miss the teacher debate
over the purpose of grading)
OTHER ARTICLES AND RESEARCH ABOUT GRADING:
New ways of testing and grading can "help
students learn and teachers teach" -- A story about two
middle school teachers who are exploring ways to improve grading and classroomassessment.
Grading
Bibliography -- Review of a book from the NorthWest Regional
Ed Lab.
There's
No Such Thing as Grade Inflation -- Research on improving grading
practices.
What Happens Between Assessments?
Performance-Based Teaching -- Assessment expert Jay McTighe
offers seven principles for performance-based instruction and assessment.
Matching
Assessment with Curriculum: Avoiding Exam Fever -- Also see
this
issue of Education Update.
Report
card grading and adaptations:
A national survey of classroom practices
(some emphasis on grading in inclusion situations)
Competitive
Grading
Sabotages Good Teaching
Grading
Practices - A very useful collection of strategies and practices
at the Tools for Teaching website. Written for college faculty but valuable
for its general philosophy.
Grading
Writing: Calculating the Bottom Line - Another article about
grading in college that may be of interest to middle grades language arts
teachers.