Determining a Grade: Using Professional Judgment
On a daily and hourly basis, teachers make professional judgments … making decisions with respect to individual students and groups
Category: assessment of learning
Determining a Grade: Analyzing the Evidence and Making a Judgment
Grading requires “thoughtful and informed professional judgment [and] an abiding concern for what best serves the interests of students and their families…”
Determining a Grade: Organizing, Monitoring and Gathering Evidence
“We’re all in this together.” How many times have we said this in the last year? We realize that to
Are the trees still growing up?
‘The trees are still growing up!’ Decades ago, a colleague, Bob Thomas, exclaimed at one of our meetings, “If you’re
Are you a ‘planner’ or a ‘pantser’?
In a recent webinar on effective writing, the presenter asked, are you a planner or a pantser? The meaning of
Where do I go from here?
“… the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity found on the far side of complexity.” Alfred North Whitehead
HARNESSING THE POWER OF ASSESSMENT 