Chapter 9: 10 Approaches to Avoid When Differentiating Assessment and Grading

This chapter talks about how teachers need to do everything they possibly can to make the grades of every student as accurate as possible. Something the I do not agree with in the beginning of the chapter is how they would like teachers to avoid incorporating nonacademic factors into the final grade. These would include behavior, attendance, and effort. Now I completely understand that behavior is not something that should be taken into consideration when grading, but attendance matter as well as effort. If a student is showing no kind of effort to pay attention, or even pretend to pay attention, if they're not doing their work, if they are fooling around while the teacher is talking, why shouldn't that reflect on their grade? Because of the kid that is fooling around the students around them might not get all the learning and instruction that they need. That is not fair to me.