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Kennewick SD: November 5, 2009

• Handout
• Presentation

Links  

Books

• Grading, 2nd ed. by Susan Brookhart
• Developing Grading and Reporting Systems by Thomas Guskey and Jane M. Bailey
• Drowning in Data?: How to Collect, Organize, and Document Student Performance by Mary Shea, Rosemary Murray, and Rebecca Harlin
• How to Grade for Learning and A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades by Ken O'Connor
• Practical Solutions for Serious Problems in Standards-based Grading by Thomas Guskey
• Classroom Assessment and Grading That Work (Chapter 1 available free) and Transforming Classroom Grading (Power Law Chapter available free) by Robert Marzano
• Mindset by Carol Dweck
• Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing and Grading in a Differentiated Classroom by Rick Wormeli
• Overcoming Student Failure by Martin Covington
• Data Wise by Kathryn Parker Boudett; Elizabeth A. City; Richard J. Murnane

Other

• 2009 Sound Grading Practices Conference in Portland, Oregon; December 10 - 11, 2009
• Examples of Grading Systems and Report Cards from Big Ideas
• Patterns of Adaptive Learning Study (has links to manuals, surveys, and articles)
• Power of I Powerpoint from Mineral County Schools
• Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome
• Microcharts and Bullet Graphs and Sparklines (Oh, my!)---also see Excel and Data tags on my Delicious site
• Sample Excel Gradebook
• Markscan gradebook software
• Excelsior gradebook software
• Poll Everywhere

Articles

• Sissonville Lawsuit (with link to complaint) and Sissonville Lawsuit Result (5/2007)
• Stanford Law Drops Letter Grades from Inside Higher Education (6/2/2008)
• Could Standard Grading Practices Be Counterproductive? from Education Week (reg. req'd.) (6/30/2008)
• Do Grades or Standardized Test Scores Make the Student from the Washington Post (4/8/2008)
• So Is That Like an A? from The New York Times (2/14/2008)
• Easy A's on the Internet from Business Week (12/11/2007)
• Pittsburgh Administrators Defend 50% Grades from Teacher Magazine (reg req'd.) (1/7/2009)
• Fairfax, VA Grading Scale Saga: Schools to Study Grading Practices (4/26/2008), In Grading Levels the Playing Field Is Often Uneven (9/15/2008), Grading Bar Too High, (10/19/2008), Opponents Show Up in Force (1/9/2009), Fairfax to Ease Grading Policy (1/22/09), Fairfax Board Leans Toward New Grading Scale (1/12/2009) Enthusiasm for Grade Policy Change (1/24/2009)
• Entitled Students Expect Better Grades from National Post (11/10/2008)
• Adams 50 Will No Longer Have Grade Levels from Denver Post (12/21/2008)
• High School Rank Loses Luster from Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (11/28/2008)
• Public School Drops Grades from Saskatoon Review (12/6/2008)
• Gates Foundation to Study Cash for Grades from LA Times (12/9/2008)
• On-line Grading Systems Mean No Changing Ds to Bs from the Washington Post (11/3/2008)
• I Know What You Did Last Math Class from the New York Times (5/4/2008)
• Completed School Assignments Lead to Better Grades from The Tennessean (1/21/2009)
• Imagining College Without Grades from Inside Higher Ed (1/22/2009)