Grading

Report Digs Into Teachers' Feedback And Finds Bias Towards Minority Students

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.15.2012

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

By: Robyn Gee When white teachers were asked to give feedback on C-minus level essays, they gave more positive feedback when they believed the studen...

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The Dancing Parent: Grading Your Kid's Grades, Part 2

Leslie King, LCSW | Posted 08.06.2011

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Leslie King, LCSW

Let's take a look at why kids who may well have a realistic capacity to regularly receive top grades, yet who seem to be chronically underachieving.

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Classroom Grading is an Attack on Students

Bob Bowdon | Posted 07.13.2011

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Bob Bowdon

Until someone devises a grading system that can compensate for which students have advantages and which don't, the only fair course is to avoid grading completely.

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End of the Term Pile-Up

Ilana Garon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ilana Garon

It is precisely this fear, of being cornered after failing too many students, that gets me into trouble when I'm trying to produce term grades -- particularly at the end of the first term.

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What Did I Do Wrong? Why that A Paper Is a B-

Ruth Starkman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ruth Starkman

Universities and colleges have a highly contested, often esoteric set of grading systems and each professor has a singular, usually insular approach to assessment.

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Potomac 20854: A made for TV drama unfolds in the DC suburb

Cari Shane | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cari Shane

At Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland, 40 to 50 students were involved in a computer hacking scheme to change grades.

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