Rethinking Grading by Cathy Vatterott
Grading systems often reward on-time task completion and penalize disorganization and bad behavior. Despite our best intentions, grades seem to reflect student compliance more than student learning and engagement. In the process, we inadvertently subvert the learning process.After careful research and years of experiences with grading as a teacher and a parent, Cathy Vatterott examines and debunks traditional practices and policies of grading in K12 schools. She offers a new paradigm for standards-based grading that focuses on student mastery of content and gives concrete examples from elementary, middle, and high schools. Rethinking Grading will show all educators how standards-based grading can authentically reflect student progress and learning--and significantly improve both teaching and learning.
Cathy Vatterott is an education professor and researcher at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a former middle school teacher and principal, and a parent of a college graduate. She has learned from her workshops that grading continues to be the most contentious part . . . conjuring up the most intense emotions and heated disagreements. Vatterott is also the author of the book Rethinking Homework: Best Practices That Support Diverse Needs.
Dr. Cathy Vatterott is an education professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She teaches preservice middle school teachers in St. Louis. She has worked as a middle and high school teacher as well as a middle school principal. Academic Achievement Through Empowering Students (National Middle School Association, 1999), Becoming a Middle Level Teacher: Student-Focused Teaching of Early Adolescents (McGraw-Hill, 2007), and Rethinking Grading: Meaningful Assessment for Standards-Based Learning (ASCD, 2015) are among her many publications in the field of education. She has spoken to over 12,000 educators and parents in the United States, Canada, and Europe about her homework research. Dr. Vatterott is regarded as an international expert on K-12 homework and has been interviewed by the New York Times, National Public Radio, Time.com, USA Today, BBC World News Service, the Globe and Mail, and the Guardian, among others.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781416620495 |
| ISBN 10 | 1416620494 |
| Title | Rethinking Grading |
| Author | Cathy Vatterott |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development |
| Year published | 2015-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 130 |
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