Grading for equity : what it is, why it matters, and how it can transform schools and classrooms /: what it is, why it matters, and how it can transform schools and classrooms. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joe Feldman.
• Authors: Feldman, Joe
• Contents: Acknowledgments; About the Author; Preface to the 2nd Edition; A Note About Language and Terminology; Prologue: Mallory’s Dilemma; PART I: FOUNDATIONS; Chapter 1. What Makes Grading So Difficult to Talk About (And Even Harder to Change); Chapter 2. A Brief History of Grading; PART II: THE CASE FOR CHANGE: HOW TRADITIONAL GRADING THWARTS EFFECTIVE AND EQUITABLE TEACHING AND LEARNING; Chapter 3. How Traditional Grading Stifles Risk-Taking and Supports the “Commodity of Grades”; Chapter 4. Traditional Grading Hides Information, Invites Biases, and Provides Misleading Information; Chapter 5. Traditional Grading Demotivates and Disempowers; PART III: EQUITABLE GRADING PRACTICES; Chapter 6. A New Vision of Grading; Chapter 7. Practices That Are Mathematically Accurate; Chapter 8. Practices That Are Mathematically Accurate (Continued); Chapter 9. Practices That Value Knowledge, Not Environment or Behavior; Chapter 10. Practices That Value Knowledge, Not Environment or Behavior (Continued); Chapter 11. Practices That Support Hope and a Growth Mindset; Chapter 12. Practices That “Lift the Veil”; Chapter 13. Practices That Build “Soft Skills” Without Including Them in the Grade; Chapter 14. Putting It All Together: Nick and Cathy; Chapter 15. Systemwide Grading Coherence; Epilogue: A Return to Mallory’s School; Bibliography; Index
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Subjects: 371.26013; Examinations -- Validity; Educational tests and measurements -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781071876596
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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