Chapter 11

Chapter 11 discusses the grading issues that have teachers baffled, and the issues that will never have a definite answer. One of the issues that I feel strongly about is the topic of putting a zero, sixty, or and incomplete in the grade book when a student does not turn in their work. The book suggests that putting in a zero is not an accurate description of the students mastery. My problem with this is that if a kid does not do the work then how do we know that they have mastered whatever the work was? I believe that if a student turns in the work late then they deserve some kind of a grade other than a zero, but unless the student has missed work for an excusable reason, they deserve a zero. You have to do work to get the points, however I can see the issues with this- there are always going to be exceptions, but in general that is what I believe.