On Wednesday, the State Board of Education approved a new grading system for students that will gauge a student’s performance on assessment tests every year. The new guidelines will set scale scores ...

In their new book, Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To) (Harvard University Press), Jack Schneider, an education professor at the University of ...

Instructors should consider the grading dilemmas caused by COVID-19 and recognize that traditional assessment methods have always been arbitrary and unproductive, argues Madeline Grimm. In the spring ...

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio – For decades, K-12 students have gotten report cards, loaded with letter grades, indicating their performance in each subject. But times are changing. A’s B’s and C’s (and ...

In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student assessment methods, reigniting a debate over whether the traditional ...

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

Grading is always a hot topic for teachers. I don’t have much knowledge of the “mastery” grading concept, though, which is why I’m deferring to guests Thomas R. Guskey, Susan M. Brookhart, and my ...

Grading anonymously helps faculty avoid bias in assessment by hiding student names while you grade. Names are revealed only after you post all grades. To enable anonymous grading, open the Assignment ...