How to Grade for Learning: Linking Grades to Standards

by Ken B. O'Connor

Implement standards-based grading practices that help students succeed!



Classroom assessment methods should help students develop to their full potential, but meshing traditional grading practices with students’ achievement on standards has been difficult. Making lasting changes to grading practices requires both knowledge and willpower. Discover eight guidelines for good grading, recommendations for practical applications, and suggestions for implementing new grading practices as well



? The why’s and the how-to’s of implementing standards-based grading practices

? Tips from 48 nationally and internationally known authors and consultants

? Additional information on utilizing level scores rather than percentages

? Reflective exercises

? Techniques for managing grading more efficiently

Genres: Education

672 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2002

Reviews

[Michele · Rating 1 out of 5]

Glad I never paid for the book. No research and lots of cherry-picked quotes. Not saying grading by standards is bad or I disagree with it but this is not the book for me. There is no true data showing that this is more effective or beneficial to students but a whole lot of opinion about how this is critical for the students.

I tried to slog my way through hoping that I could but find that this book is a detractor for me. It sits on the shelf until I must pull it out and then is placed back on the self as soon as I can get it there.

[Danielle · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was ok. It had some useful and pertinent information. I really enjoyed some of the teacher profiles as well. I would definitely recommend this as one resource (among many) for standards based grading, but I would not recommend it as your main go-to book for this subject. A lot of it felt repetitious and overly verbose; I felt like it could have been condensed significantly.