In Chapter 8, Grading and Reporting Achievement, the main focus is on grading. Throughout the chapter there are six key principles that we as teachers should consider when deciding how to grade things. Principle 5 was “avoid grading based on (mean) averages”. I don’t think I agree with that exactly. I believe that averaging has it’s place in grading. Teachers shouldn’t average tests with quizzes or with homework, and visa versa, but averaging tests with all the other tests gives kids the benefit of the doubt sometimes. I plan on using averaging for my grading tactic in the future.
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