CCF 1 - Grading for Equity

What is the best example of a "traditional" but misguided idea about grading?

• Teachers should grade only on quiz and test scores.

• Portfolios are a good way to show what students have learned.

• Extra credit is a great help to students.

• Teachers love to grade long essays.

Which answer best describes the ways

traditional grading is justified by teachers?

• Strict deadlines for assignments teach students responsibility.

• Grading on class participation ensures that even shy students will speak up.

• Giving a student a zero or "F" motivates them to learn.

• All of the above.

Grades have never been included in analyses of education inequity.

• True

• False

What is one thing that you will NOT learn from this text?

• How to implement more equitable grading practices.

• That content teachers in the same school system use identical grading systems.

• Solutions to common problems that occur after implementing equitable grading.

• That traditional grading practices disproportionately affect low-income families, ELL students and students of color.

Giving a student an "F" is a good way to motivate

them to work harder in your class.

• True

• False

Which of these is NOT a significant event that necessitated changes to the way schools were run in the early 1900's?

• The rise of manufacturing

• Behaviorism

• Migration & immigration

• World War II

• Intelligence Testing

With the enactment compulsory education laws, obedience in schools

became as important as educating students. Where did

the rules of discipline and habits that were enforced come from?

• Factories used these same rules for assembly-line workers.

• Baptist Sunday School teachers

• John Dewey created a common discipline and habits pamphlet.

• The meanest nuns from Catholic school

A student's achievement in a course relative to others in the same course is called

• distributive referential grading

• norm-referenced grading

• comparative grading

• abby-normal referenced grading