Fair Grades, Dropping Grades, Grading Versus Knowledge

Advice From a Student Assessment Researcher About What is Fair and Unfair in Today's Grading Systems

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

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With almost 9,000 downloads and counting, this show is the most popular episode on Every Classroom Matters in 2016 so far. Dr. Thomas Guskey shares the current research on “fair” grading and what teachers should be doing instead. This show came from the “averaging grades” graphic (shown at the bottom) that he poste...